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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Re: product liability (was: Virus Update)
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:44:57PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > You're talking about a product sold under the advertising promise that > little to no training is necessary, and with default behavior that makes it > TRIVIAL to write crap like this. i guess this is the gist of my argument. companies should not be buying into solutions that require "little or no training". computer networks/applications are getting more and more complicated. if they think they can save money on salaries by getting software that doesn't require a knowledgeable person to set it up, well, then they get what they pay for. > But as it is, even large companies that don't use Outlook had expensive > damage, because of Microsoft shipping complex unmanageable > cruft-accumulated bloatware that can't be locked down very well even by the > top experts in the field without removing functionality that Microsoft > proclaims to the world that you need to go Where You Want To Go Today. crappy software is a fact of life. > Where I want to go today is to work without having to recover 1,300 files > damaged by two idiots double-clicking something they shouldn't have. > > Ask CBS' network folks where they want to go today. They'll probably tell > you "to Redmond, with AK-47s". probably best to take those AK-47s and go after the bonehead who made the decision to use the crappy software. -- [ Jim Mercer [email protected] +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]
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