Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:24:47 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <5cr6b75d8u58j751bauebebmtc5ag6lg9s@4ax.com> <26059185.6.1320429017246.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbht1> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9638 On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:50:17 -0700 (PDT), Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >You have not established that bugs are left in deliberately, nor that even if they are it's the "focus on money" that makes them do that. > >Pure B.S., like most pseudo-socialist rhetoric. Another source of evidence is the release notes of when the vendor expects you to pay for an upgrade when the only important difference is bug fixes. The sloppier he is initially, the more money he makes. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later. Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the best remedy.