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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Unlimited software warranties
Message-ID: <1616@TALOS.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 91 14:39:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.015256.16098@ico.isc.com> <8024@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
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alan@tivoli.UUCP (Alan R. Weiss) writes:

|In article <12600@pucc.Princeton.EDU| EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:

|[much good flaming deleted ... lots of stuff to chew on].

||If programming is going to survive as a profession, programmers
||need to design in quality even when management doesn't ask for it.
||Why?  Because when the lawsuits begin when the software fails,
||managers will point to the programmers as being at fault.  And,
||like the guy peddling oatmeal on the boob tube says, writing
||quality code is "the right thing to do."
||+--------------------------------+ Edward G. Nilges

|This actually raises a different but related question:  when the lawsuits
|begin, WHO IS AT FAULT?  Can we distiguish between "at fault" and
|"legally liable?"  Possible culprits:

|Alan R. Weiss                           TIVOLI Systems, Inc.

	Whoever the judges and juries elect to find at fault!  Like
	marketing issues this has nothing to do with logic, but is a
	matter of perception.

			Jerry

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