typo
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554 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jun 2007
It's standard practice in firmware code, where it's possible to brick a device, to flag a new download as "on trial". Once processing the new file has been deemed successful, it's marked as being OK.
On a subsequent boot, downloads still marked as On trial are deemed faulty, and to be ignored from then on.
I worked at Ubiquisys in its early days, ten people or so in a Regus office.
There was definitely version control (Subversion) and unit+integration+system testing. Of course, product versioning is possibly a different matter.
So what happened in the later years, after my one-year stint, I don't know.