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...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 363; no. 8278; pp. 13 - 14 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
6/22/2002
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | 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. |
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