Moi:
I was more venting emotions built up after reading previous posts on this thread
Apparently being rude to Geoff did not complete the catharsis, as I feel the need to offer these thoughts as well:
* Just so we're sure we're comparing apples to apples: My closest contact on Microfinancial Corp's Flexware programming team used to say "FlexWare is bug free...so long as people use it the way they are supposed to." If any among you are making the contention "my software is bug free" on the basis of "I tested all the features and they work for me", your definition of "bug-free" is quite different from mine: if 5% or more of your users make the same mistake, that's your fault, not theirs.
* If the industry norm was that no software would be shipped if it contained a single known bug, there would be no industry...unless you can point to an operating system that meets that requirement.
* Considering the number of auto safety recalls, personal instances of packages (eg: auto parts) not containing what they are supposed to, spelling & grammar errors in newscasts, etc., I suggest if builders built buildings and auto workers built cars and packagers packed product the way programmers wrote programs and news writers paid the same attention to spelling & "grammar" as programmers, we might have a more productive society in general. [Not that I fault workers for having no more dedication to their employers than their employers have for them.]
Rob Cozens, CCW Serendipity Software Company "There's nothing wrong with Capitalism except Capitalists: they're too damn greedy!" -- Herbert Hoover _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
