Article: 245679 of alt.folklore.computers Path: engnews1.eng.sun.com!sunnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!namche.sun.com!denver-snf1.gtei.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.flash.net!news.flash.net!not-for-mail From: hnsngr@sirius.com (Ron Hunsinger) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Toughest thing about computers Message-ID: References: <20010105003952.01155.00001424@ng-cv1.aol.com> <93f2o9$s36$12@bob.news.rcn.net> <3A5CF76B.30D5C6AF@ev1.net> <93q3vq$g6q@r02n01.cac.psu.edu> Organization: ErsteSoft Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Lines: 14 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:59:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.103.86.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 979423174 216.103.86.8 (Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:59:34 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:59:34 CST Xref: engnews1.eng.sun.com alt.folklore.computers:245679 In article <93q3vq$g6q@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > Software has rights, too. How dare you test a drug on a simulation > that might get hurt? Many software companies still subject their software to all manner of horrendous testing. The programs are confined to small boxes and forced to exercise every feature in every possible way. The exercise is so brutal that programs have been known to crash and die during the testing. Fortunately, some enlightened companies such as Microsoft have abjured this horrible practice. -Ron Hunsinger