__/ [ Roy Culley ] on Saturday 02 December 2006 22:45 \__
> begin risky.vbs
> <ak9944-dfr.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:58:38 -0800,
>> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> In article <c9q844-v3q.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>, mrloy@xxxxxxxxx (Roy Culley)
>>> wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > Software, unlike cars, does not wear out.
>>>>
>>>> Not true. Gates himself said all SW suffers from bitrot. Of course
>>>> his 'all' is MS SW to everyone else.
>>>
>>> Neither of you have ever looked in a software engineering textbook,
>>> right?
>>
>> Does that mean you believe software "wears out"?
>
> Just Timmy showing his utter ignorance as usual. He's trying so hard
> but will always be an Erik wannabe. Poor Timmy.
It can only 'wear out' if you embed timebomb-type bugs (e.g. Y2K) or if it's
so insecure that vulnerabilities emerge every other week (in which case it's
the _environment_ that rots or software secrets that prove CSS is a bad
idea).
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