On 10/14/2014 1:16 PM, Dean Rosenthal wrote: [snip] > it's broken" And it's really made me question why software is any > different. You can't say the sophisticated engineering that goes into > manufacturing an entire car isn't potentially as detailed as a > software app - considering there is a lot of software right there in > car, for example? [snip]
But cars are buggy, too -- witness the numbers of recalls of millions of vehicles over the years. Sometimes the bugs don't come out for a long long time in cars -- we owned a 2006 Saturn Ion which just received a recall notice (we traded it in 6 months ago). And just as with software, car manufacturers try to hide the bugs as long as they can until they're finally caught. Witness the millions of GM cars which had faulty ignition switches that we only found about within the past year, even though they had been installed *and known about at GM* quite a few years ago and GM said to go ahead and install them anyway! It's the mindset of manufacturing these days, whether it's hardware or software -- put out a product that's a buggy as can be and still be sold, and then try to fix things when enough people complain about them and cry about how difficult it is to track them all down and fix them. But that's because manufacturing, whether hardware or software, is all about pleasing the shareholders first and then pleasing the customers only as much as it helps to keep the shareholders happy. If corporations put as much effort into fixing buggy products as they do into evading taxes, we'd all be much happier and not be complaining about the bugs nearly as much. But that won't ever happen again in our lifetimes, not as long as Wall Street is king and the consumer is only a peasant with very little power. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
