Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2012-05-13 01:03, Anton Aylward wrote:
For the likes of us, the whole 'first to market and never mind the bugs' attitude is JUST PLAIN WRONG!
You tell that to the bosses. They know not anything about programming, just money.
What's needed is some liability lawsuits. All of these "Not fit for any purpose" on software packaging are just so much nonsense. I would argue in court that they are nothing less than quaint decoration, because if the software vendor REALLY believed that the software is not fit for any puropose, then they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of advertising its capabilities (both in the media and on the package itself) and writing and distributing user manuals expressing EXACTLY what the software is supposed to do (regardless of whether it actually does it or not). Once management finds out that legally defending defective software takes all the profit out of the "We got our bugware to market first" strategy, we will see a change. Product liability law doesn't tolerate this sort of shoddyness for even a simple lawnmower, why should it be tolerated in software which has far greater impact on humanity? [And just for the record, I think that there needs to be a MAJOR reduction in medical malpractice liability -- medicine is imprecise, no doctor can have perfect knowledge, and yet the lawyers portray any medical sub-optimal medical outcome as a travesty. Of course, part of this may be a natural result of the arrogance of so many MD's. They have the highest per capita rate of fatalities in amateur aviation, because they so many of them think that their MD degree makes them more knowledgeable about takeoff and landing conditions than the (professionals) who work in that airfield's tower every day.] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org