scott wrote:
>> Fortunately, the makers of safety-critical hardware and software are 
>> bound by *laws* which prevent them from not fixing bugs just because 
>> it's "not profitable".
> 
> And as a result their software is orders of magnitudes more expensive.

I'll grand you that.

OTOH, M$'s products aren't exactly "cheap", by any stretch of the 
imagination. I think what most people really object to is paying vast 
sums of money for a product that isn't actually all that good. Let's 
face if, when you run KLogic and it crashes for the 18th time, you think 
to yourself "oh well, it least it didn't cost me anything". If you paid 
£400 for a piece of software and it behaved the same way, you'd be 
pretty upset.

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