Subject: Re: Release Practices
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 16:53:20 CST
At 02:01 PM 2/8/00 -0600, Bryan Prusha wrote:
> The most recent, high visiblity place I've heard it used was at
>Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC last year. To prove Apple was going to fully
>support both it's Carbon and Cocoa APIs they would "eat their own dogfood".
>That is use Carbon and Cocoa throught out their software product line.
For those of you who like trolling back through the archives of this list,
here's Eric's definition:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/98/December/0001.html
Here are the relevant entries from various jargon files:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/jargon.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/dogfood.html
http://cinepad.com/mslex.htm
For such an industry-standard term, it's fun to see the different spins
everyone puts on it.
Enjoy!
Paul
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