clipka wrote:
> 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. 

Sure. ANd when you start getting into "thousands of people", the equation 
changes again. Now it's not "how many man hours can we save", but "how many 
people won't buy our product because of this bug" vs "how much does the bug 
take to fix."

If only 3 people are going to switch from Windows to Linux because of a bug 
that costs you 6 hours a year, chances of MS spending a man month to fix it 
are slim even if it wastes the time of 1000s of people a year.

>> Hard to say, really. Certainly the *easy* programs are desktop and web 
>> apps.
> 
> I guess old-fashioned mainframe business apps are rather boring, too.

Yup. "Say, generate for me a list of all employees in order of the total 
number of days they've worked since getting hired."

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.

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