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Re:The Missing Career Path for the Technical Expert by partycoder on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:02PM (#15461306)
The nowadays industry largely advocates for producing software that can be sold, rather than finished software.

With unfinished software I refer to functional prototypes, or software that only implement functional requirements (features) rather than non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability, configuration, stability, etc).

In my opinion, selling unfinished software is a form of fraud and I expect that in the future it will become illegal.

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Re:The Missing Career Path for the Technical Expert by cableshaft on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:09PM (#15461342)
It's not called unfinished software anymore, it's called "software as a service". Just keep paying them and they'll keep working on it.
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Re:The Missing Career Path for the Technical Expert by partycoder on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:27AM (#15463464)
Except when you can't. Like Equifax. Once your sensitive data is exfiltrated you cannot "keep working on it".
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