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Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by jlgaddis on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:43PM (#11602959)
I didn't downvote your original comment (just saw it and this one at the same time), but perhaps it has something to do with your blanket categorization of all Japanese software?
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Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by johansch on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:47PM (#11602986)
Well, if you read my comment properly, you'll realize that what I actually said is that large japanese hardware companies tend to be really bad at software. Nintendo is pretty much the one exception.
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Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by PhantomGremlin on Saturday April 30, 2016 @07:20PM (#11604101)
large japanese hardware companies tend to be really bad at software

That's probably true. But I think your statement is unnecessarily focused on Japan. The following is also true:

large hardware companies tend to be really bad at software

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