According to Sergey Bukhman:

> Thing is, they released buggy software. I paid good money for it, and keep paying every
> month.

[OOLT = Out Of List Topic]

If people paid only for bugless software, the computer industry would crash down
overnight :)

> Have you ever seen a TV released that only shows prime number channels, with a promise
> to come fix it some time? Ever seen a stove that only heats to 50 degrees with a promise
> to come fix it some time? Ever see a car that only turns left with a promise to come fix
> it some time? No. This happens only in computer software, especially high profile games.

Software industry faces two choices:

- Refine their products until nothing can be done, release it after three years,
and ask $300 per copy
- Release a working product, release it after a year, and ask $50 per copy

Another problem is that, if you want to release a product that will be used by 100,000
persons, and want it bugless, you need to use 100,000 beta-testers over a period roughly
equal to the product lifetime... or people will find bugs.

(non-regression testing also delay fixing, yadda, yadda)
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