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- From: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer)
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- Subject: Re: Stupid Licenses (YUCK!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.181839.10346@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 18:18:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.023609.26000@news2.cis.umn.edu> I wrote:
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- It is fair to say that no computer company puts quality first, ahead of
- featurality. Until they do, quality will remain abysmal.
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- In article <bhayden.724865911@teal> bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) replies:
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- > And that is why they are wide open to lawsuits. Its a business decision.
- > As long as you stand to make more money selling defective software,
- > than software that works properly, companies will continue to ship
- > before they get the bugs out. When enough software companies have lost
- > enough money through law suits, we will get software that works properly
- > the first time.
- >
- > Just take a software engineering course. We know how to test for bugs,
- > how to do software QC. We just don't do it. Often the company that is
- > shipping the premature software has a QC section. Almost as often
- > that QC group is at some level preempted by marketing. But how does
- > it look when I ask for that QC data when I sue you for defective
- > software. This is what is called a "smoking gun" by attorneys.
-
- Sounds to me like from a legal standpoint the best thing would be to replace
- fire the QC people so they won't generate any "smoking guns".
-
- Things won't change until someone markets quality computer software and
- hardware and gives the customers a choice. You can buy a Japanese car
- and tell Detroit to stuff it. Why can't you buy a computer like that?
-
- BTW this isn't an anti-American comment. I just bought an American car
- (I'm giving Detroit one last chance).
-
- --
- Charles Geyer
- School of Statistics
- University of Minnesota
- charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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