Buggy whipped.

Focuses on problems involving commercial software and discusses a survey regarding the most common software bugs. Economic costs for companies who have to download and install software patches for fixing security breaches each time a bug is discovered; Complexity of modern software, with extra feat...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 363; no. 8278; pp. 13 - 14
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 6/22/2002
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Sumario:Focuses on problems involving commercial software and discusses a survey regarding the most common software bugs. Economic costs for companies who have to download and install software patches for fixing security breaches each time a bug is discovered; Complexity of modern software, with extra features, according to survey respondents; Agreement that revising the terms that software publishers enjoy under copyright law was preferable to extending product-liability laws; Thoughts on whether software makers should warn about possible bugs.