full-disclosure - Re: How much time is appropriate for fixing a bug?

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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:47:56 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: Kurt Ellzey <kurt@...-sys.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: How much time is appropriate for fixing a bug?

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 12:30:09PM -0400, Kurt Ellzey wrote:
> >vendors know better, the messenger is guilty.
> >design flaws are hard and expensive to fix, lol.
> >there is time for fixing and there is time for breaking any vendor will
> tell you.
> 
> 
> "There are never any flaws- they are not bugs, they're features!"
>

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any
significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new
version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can
take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would
you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to
say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell
a release on that basis.

    Focus Magazine No. 43 (23 October 1995)

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

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