Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: One for Elizabeth... Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:27:20 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <5c56c350-73d1-4a9d-9c39-509d8c27870b@googlegroups.com> <962890b8-d773-4d03-a5aa-f14c016eaf4f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:29817 On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:02:47 -0400, Shark8 wrote: > On 23-Apr-14 23:12, hughaguilar96@yahoo.com wrote: >> It is sleazy salespeople who demand money for every "upgrade," which is >> really just a bug-fix. > > Ah, but it works the other way, too: > Customers can, and do, try to sneak new features into "bug-fixes"... > especially if the bug-fix rate is less than the rate for new development. A coworker at a former compnay claimed he accidentally made a serious, as in really, really, expensive, coding mistake long prior to me working there, for which he was rewarded a nice big raise - since he was also the guy who was asked to fixed the problem ... Apparently, management never learned the truth, i.e., he probably would've been fired. My dad has some phrase about those in management flipping over the table so they can be rewarded for uprighting it. I.e., the flipped table is an artificially created problem which is easily solvable. Rod Pemberton