On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:13 +0000, Paulo J. S. Silva wrote: > OK Leandro, > > I just sent an email to Ayatana list with your mockup and presenting > the argument on the possible security flaw. Let us see how it goes. > However, I would not be very hopeful, it seems like people in > Canonical are convinced that the new behavior is good.
People can get emotionally attached to an expended time and effort (with the alternative being to throw the result away and feel like your time has been wasted) and start to put up blinders to the real issues. This is similar to the phenomenon that allows projects to run 10-fold over time and budget. At every progress report on the overage, the team is convinced that they only need [insert small amount here] more to complete the project. Then, the more management invests in a project the more likely they are going to continue to throw good money after bad to finally see it through rather than cutting bait early on in the disaster. After-all, who wants to say "we blew $$$$ and have nothing to show for it" rather than continuing the fantasy of eventually having something, even though it cost you 10 or 20x your original budget. Hopefully this is not what is happening here. -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
