Possible attack; opinions wanted

Warren E. Agin wea at swiggartagin.com
Thu Jul 18 13:08:56 EDT 2002


My father used to run a software company and had the same attitude toward bugs. He noted that while each version would fix the bugs found in the last version, it invariably introduced new ones. So, relying on versioning to eliminate bugs was somewhat pointless.

-Warren Agin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Peterson 
  To: discuss at blu.org 
  Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:43 PM
  Subject: Re: Possible attack; opinions wanted


  On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:30:17AM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:

  > ... No software is perfect, but Microsoft's track record is about the
  > worst I've seen...  For a company with their resources, which
  > supposedly prides itself on hiring the best programmers and writing
  > "quality" software, their history with security issues is astoundingly
  > atrocious.

  "The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's
  absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever
  heard."

  -BILL GATES

  The M$ Chief Evil Officer apparantly had a bad snuggy when he was giving
  an interview:

  http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html

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