' ... I didn't think it [the report] was balanced. I thought it was about ten pages longer than it needed to be. ... There were problems with the system and I think they were expressed in that report in a bad way. I think any praise of the system tended to be hidden and it was written in a way, I've no axe to grind against Colin, I felt that it would come with six paragraphs of criticism and then you'd have a line of fairly perfunctory praise of what the system was doing. I think also there were parts of it where people within the user base, said things that weren't quite as they were ... I think everybody's had a bit of a wind about things. I think it's got a much more upbeat feeling about things now. So if it's affected things in that way it was worth writing. I think it's maybe focused the venom, vitriol.X064 page 002.05 (tape 04.2.02) Stuart Notes/Tape 14/10/94... there were a lot of small things. ... Although, I'm not sure that X would entirely agree, a lot of those things were wrong in version I. They were just errors carried over from version I to version II. And another problem was that the people who were working on it, particularly one chap, was at the same time as working on version II, having to amend version I and make changes to that as a result of bugs that had come out. ... So it wasn't this is a little team that is purely developing ... '
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