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Who will pay for it?Who will pay for it?Posted Nov 2, 2011 8:15 UTC (Wed) by ekj (guest, #1524)In reply to: Who will pay for it? by epa Parent article: The embedded long-term support initiative
Writing bug-free software, does not work. As in, literally nobody has figured out how to do it, not even with near-infinite budgets for near-trivial computations.
Even those situations where we use the very strictest of quality-controls, and as a result end up paying orders of magnitude more than we would with "normal" software, we still get banal, -stupid- bugs like the Mars Climate Orbiter doing lithobraking due to one software-module using imperial units rather than metric like the rest of the software. (i.e. bugs not unlike those typical of normal off-the-shelf software)
In most lines of bussiness, simply *trying* to do software like that, would guarantee bankruptcy. There's a reason things are done the way things are done.
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