____/ waterskidoo on Friday 13 July 2007 00:28 : \____
> On 2007-07-12, alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Quote: The bottom line is that the answer to "Why would you knowingly
>> continue to sell a defective product?"
>>
>> Answer: Because that's what they've always done and it hasn't been a
>> problem to their bottom line yet.
>
> *I* wouldn't, but evidently a lot of companies do.
> See just about any automobile manufacturer for details.
>
> It seems like monthly some company product is being pulled off
> the shelves and the paper trail leads to internal memos that
> admit the problem and so forth.
> Ford for example knew for a long time about the Crown Victoria
> gas tank exploding in rear end collisions.
> Dodge knew about the crappy ball joints in their Durango
> trucks. The same POS that the light weight Dodge Caravan
> minivan uses. It's fine for a minivan. It's not fine
> for a gigantic truck.
> It's corporate greed in action and Microsoft is hardly
> the only example.
> I'd like to believe that companies don't knowingly
> start out making a bad product but I would like to
> see them fess up when things go wrong rather than
> hoping nobody sues them first.
>
> That's one thing I like about OSS. There is no attitude
> or *shame* if you will. I mean that in a nice way.
> When something is found to be broken, it gets fixed and
> it happens *very quickly*. No finger pointing, no
> ego's etc. A let's just fix it attitude, and I admire that.
> I'm sure there is bickering going on behind the scenes,
> but it's not a big issue and it certainly doesn't seem
> to impede the bug fix process.
It's the same thing with the documentation or help files, which admit
shortcomings. They are not just filled with self-promotional verbage.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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