Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
by thfuran on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @03:26PM
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If you buy a car and the airbags randomly deploy, would you consider it reasonable for the manufacturer to respond "oh, yeah, that'll happen if you drive it on roads rougher than polished stainless steel. You should only be driving on polished roadways"?
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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
by chromoblob on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:29PM
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If this requirement was known to me before I bought, sure.
I think that this is a bad analogy to hardware, though. Polished steel roads are unreasonable to ask for, but bugless processors are reasonable to ask for.
Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
by thfuran on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:14PM
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No, they aren't. You can only buy the buggy processors that exist, not notional bugless ones.
Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
by chromoblob on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:47PM
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As if processors were only sold by alien gods, and processors without bugs were impossible to create.
Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
by thfuran on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:05AM
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They may not be impossible to make, but they don't get made. And I guess you think Microsoft has been putting bugs in Windows for the last few decades just for something to do, or was that also the influence of alien gods?