On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:12:59AM -0800, Tim wrote: > Say you are an engineer at a large car manufacturing company. Suppose, > 6 months after the 2004 model of your sedan goes out the door, you > discover, as an engineer who helped build it, that the car's frame is > flawed. Suppose that it is so flawed that after 3 years, it may break > due to normal use, potentially causing bad crashes. You are under several misperceptions. The first is that this IE bug is life-threatening. It's not. The second is that IE cost the users' money. It didn't. > Is it your moral obligation to notify customers? Sure you are going to > fix it in next year's model, that is a given. But what about all those > people with a potentially deadly model? It's not my moral responsibility to list every single component that's wrong if I recall the vehicle. Microsoft has, several times now, recalled the vehicle and replaced it for free. Where's the problem? > Obviously, this is not the auto industry. Some will argue that we are > not talking about life-and-death situations here. But the reality is, > we are. Software bugs can cause death, and have before, both on the > small scale, and the large scale. This is outrageous FUD. Web browsers are not used in medical appliances. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net
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