On Sunday 24 May 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Saturday 23 May 2009 23:32:22 Rony wrote: > > > software that works and works well does not crash > > > > > > > Software runs on an operating system. No software is un-crashable as it > > is also linked to hardware. No hardware is un-crashable. > > hardware crashes - a proper backup policy makes that irrelevant to the > organisation.
hardware failures != hardware crashes. Failure of devices is an accepted fact of life - and is well quantified (or atleast supposed to be). But crashes due to buggy hardware is equally unacceptable. > Software that crashes and destroys data is unacceptable. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
