Darren New schrieb:
> It's not a matter of "unavoidable fact of life". It's simply a cost to 
> benefit ratio. If over the lifetime of your computer you spend (say) six 
> hours waiting for it to reboot, or you could spend 60 hours finding and 
> fixing the bug that's causing that problem, what do you do?

Well, if that's a total of six man-hours (as opposed to maybe thousands 
of people losing six hours each), then it's more economic to leave the 
bug in there. Provided it doesn't cause any other harm like destroying 
valuable data, setting off a thermonuclear war or something...

That's one reason why in-house tools tend to be so crappy: It's more 
economic to accept the loss of productivity of the few people who 
actually use it, than investing that productivity into improving it.


> Hard to say, really. Certainly the *easy* programs are desktop and web 
> apps.

I guess old-fashioned mainframe business apps are rather boring, too.

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