You think it was a hoax? IMO, it was a very critical warning that
every major company around the globe examined and agreed with, and
then invested a lot of money in fixing. The only reason that those
things didn't happen is because of the advance warning by people like Yourdon.
+1
Of course, the hoopla was overblown by the media. I've had a lot of
experience dealing with reporters over the years. Every time, and I
mean _every_ time, they did a story that I was involved in, or knew
the facts about, there was at least one major error in what they
reported. Specialist science and technology reporters are no better
at being accurate than generic journalists. Every news story that you
see, from every source, contains errors, and the headlines, which are
written by editors, not reporters, are often way off base in relation
to the content of the story.
The media coverage of the problem was a hoax. The problem was very real.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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