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Subject:Re: ISO Certified? No, Please do not say it From:Barry Kieffer <barry -dot- kieffer -at- EXGATE -dot- TEK -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:41:36 -0800
Chuck, you just pushed my TW hot button.
<snip>
...than ISO 9000 certification says about a company's quality of
output.
> To paraphrase what one ISO consultant
> once told me, you can produce total garbage, but as long as you can
> fully document how the garbage is produced, then it will be ISO
> certified garbage.
</snip>
Repeat after me:
You can be ISO registered.
You can not be ISO certified.
I started writing ISO documentation way back when people still remembered
what "ISO" really stands for.
Back when if you said "International Standards Organization" you received a
slap to the belly with a wet fish.
