Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!eneevax!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why bugs don't get fixed Message-ID: <8033@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 7 Jun 88 09:12:01 GMT References: <1128@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <55239@sun.uucp> <1133@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <8013@brl-smoke.ARPA> <694@flatline.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 17 In article <694@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j. eric townsend) writes: >HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I guess that makes only really increadibly huge >companies "responsible software organizations".. I've never understood >how smaller companies could do the full QC required by common sense. For your information, the trouble reporting system I set up was at a small company, less than 100 employees and around 4 to 6 on the software development staff. And our company president was probably as flaky as yours. I don't see how we could have survived NOT doing an adequate job of customer support and quality control. This isn't the place to discuss business ethics, but basically if you do stupid things merely because management tells you to, you must not have much confidence in your competence. If there are genuinely good reasons for some course of action, explain it to your technical management. If they act truly irrationally, get a job elsewhere.