Auto "Makers" try to avoid shipping defective cars. Recalls can be expensive.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Bill Johnson > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 5:58 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued > > Auto dealers make tons of money fixing defective cars. All software > companies charge for bug fixes. Some just hide it in the initial cost of the > software. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Thursday, September 7, 2017, 7:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:16:34 -0400, Tom Conley wrote: > > >On 9/7/2017 4:07 PM, Jim Mulder wrote: > >> With regard to only the last sentence in Gord's comments, those of > >>us in z/OS development who put the bugs into the software don't have > >>anything to do with the IBM offerings for reporting bugs and > >>obtaining fixes for the bugs. So that does not play any part in our > >>decisions about how many bugs to include in the software. :-) > >> > >> Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. > >> Poughkeepsie NY > > > >Laugh it up, furball. > > > That cynicism will predictably be aroused by any organization that accounts > defect support as a profit center. (I have no evidence that IBM does so.) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
