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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:09:05PM -0700, [email protected] said: > These kinds of inflated damages estimates are dubious at best. > If you've lost that much productivity, odds are you should be pointing > fingers at inapropriate redundancy and planning/procedures in your > computing facilities and not blaming some toy programs written by kids > with too much time. This kind of financial loss hype/fear-mongering is best > left to politicians, and not technical discussions. indeed - and yet companies claim these kind of damages, at least publicly, whenever these worms come along (every month or two, it seems). Two questions spring to mind: 1) where are these figures coming from, and 2) if they're accurate, why in the world would a company make the same mistake that cost them a million bucks last month, again next month? That's the kind of stuff that gets executives fired (you'd think) ... (note: the figures I posted were just gathered from publicly available news sources. We all know how accurate reporters tend to be when covering technical issues, so take them with a grain of salt. The point of the post was, there are a great many companies out there throwing good money after bad, month after month, without seeming to realize it.) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui Attachment:
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