Bugs/spam and the whole deal

[Dave Parker]

WOOPS!  My public apologies to Brian for reflexively hitting
Alt-Return and replying only to him and not to the entire list.
Brian - I apologize - I wasn't implying that you or anyone else
is humor impaired.  Maybe so much of what I say is tongue-in-cheek
I'm just in the habit of people laughing at what I say.

So maybe I can help put a rest to this thread (interesting though
it is) by resending this, and to the entire list this time!  Sorry
if I've offended anyone - this has been an interesting thread.

Here's my original reply:

Okay, okay...  I give...  For the humor impaired:
 
 :-) :-) :-) ...

Some real smileys for folks who had their virtual smiley filters
turned on.

And anyway, if Microsoft cleaned up it's act right this minute,
there'd still be tons of clean-up work to do - probably enough
to keep us all busy for years...

Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> > > And one more thing.  Why do we hate Microsoft so much when it's
> > > such a goldmine for consultants?  If everyone quite using Microsoft
> > > products today (or if they actually got their act together) then I'd
> > > bet 80% of the consultants around the world would be out of work...
> >
> 
> A bug is a bug is a product defect (Martin Tillinger).
> 
> Which is why Microsoft doesn't write software for aircraft control and
> missile defense. A single typo could kill real people. The acceptance of
> defects in software by people is astounding to me. My name goes into my
> code, I refuse to release code to my clients that doesn't work. Anything
> less is unacceptable, irresponsible, immoral and yes, just plain WRONG.
> Excuse me for shouting, but it is a pet peeve. Bugs are not inevitable in
> code, any more than it is inevitable that Ford will make a car without
> brakes! That 80% would have better projects to work on and companies would
> be more profitable and technology would advance faster. In other words it
> would cause a technological boom, that would spur the need for even more
> consultants. Reliability has a lot to do with corporate hesitation to
> implement. The mentality would not be "Wait until the third bug fix."; it
> would be "We need that to beat our competitor!".
> 
> I humble submit this rant for approval,
> Brian
> 
> Brian Densmore <mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
> 
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