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Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile)

From	Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile)
Date	2011-11-06 14:16 -0600
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On 11/4/2011 12:50 PM, Lew wrote:
> Roedy Green wrote in his tag line:
>> 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.
>
> Facts not in evidence.
>
> 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.

Given some of the limited experience I have with corporate development,
I would reason that it is very likely that most companies will release 
products with known software bugs. However, this is not because they 
want to make money on the upgrades but rather because they need to 
actually release software at some point in time.

I will admit that all of my experience with software is related to 
consumer-targeted software and not enterprise-targeted; however, in 
consumer-targeted software, I am not aware of a single instance where I 
had to pay for a bug-only fix.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-11-03 14:32 -0500
    Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-03 20:50 +0100
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-03 13:52 -0700
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-03 23:13 +0100
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-03 16:17 -0700
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 13:58 -0700
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-03 20:40 -0400
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-04 02:28 +0100
          Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-04 03:06 +0100
            Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-04 08:05 -0400
              Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-04 16:12 +0100
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2011-11-04 16:54 +0000
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-03 23:24 +0100
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 20:14 -0400
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 21:56 -0700
    [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 10:50 -0700
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 21:07 -0400
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-05 20:21 -0700
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-05 20:24 -0700
        Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-06 10:36 +0100
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-11-06 14:16 -0600
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-11-05 16:51 +0200
    Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 16:27 +0100
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 10:03 -0700
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 19:37 +0100
          Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 13:25 -0700
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 19:47 +0100
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 19:56 +0100
          Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 13:29 -0700
            Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-06 10:42 +0100

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