Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:16:56 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <5cr6b75d8u58j751bauebebmtc5ag6lg9s@4ax.com> <26059185.6.1320429017246.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbht1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="WpcHJSul77m+zlbR9GVqkA"; logging-data="969"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX193FXkiQlZAParuNVtxLlGXt9AK3SvOxVo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <26059185.6.1320429017246.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbht1> Cancel-Lock: sha1:vOeI5OAF/ystCCHBwa5zL7A3+40= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9665 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