People, ... sorry for the latching on on this broadside issue, but it is impotant ...
here's are some germane points from another online discussion: the bug-reporting issue has came up so many times by so many people i thought i'd make a comment of my view. when a software is ostensibly incorrect, and if it is likely in connection to egregious irresponsibility as most software companies are thru their irresponsible licensing, the thing one should not do is to fawn up to their ass as in filing a bug report, and that is also the least effective in correcting the software. the common attitude of bug-reporting is one reason that contributed to the tremendous egregious irresponsible fuckups in computer software industry that each of us have to endure daily all the time. (e.g. software A clashed, software B can't do this, C can't do that, D i don't know how to use, E download location currently broken, F i need to join discussion group to find a work-around, G is all pretty and dysfunctional... ) when a software is ostensibly incorrect and when the company is irresponsible with their licensing, the most effective and moral attitude is to do legal harm to the legal entity. This one an do by filing a law suit or spreading the fact. Filing a law suit is appropriate in severe and serious cases, and provided you have such devotion to the cause. For most cases, we should just spread the fact. When a company see facts flying about their incompetence or irresponsibility, they will immediately mend the problem source, or cease to exist. Another harm sprang from the fucking bug-reporting attitude rampant among IT morons is the multiplication of pop-ups that bug users for bug-reporting, complete with their privacy intrusion legalese. http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/responsible_license.html Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html Xah Lee wrote: > folks: > > when using google to post a reply, it sometimes truncates the subject > line. i.e. [perl-python] is lost. This software error is obvious, they > could not have not noticed it. > > another thing more egregious is that google _intentionally_ edit with > people's posts. (e.g. they change email address lines without author's > permission, and they also change program codes so it no longer run). > Please spread these google irresponsibility to all related forums on > software responsibility and online forum issues. > > Ostensible incorrect behavior like these by google is egregious enough > to generate a law suit and if such company do not take software > correctness seriously, we must punish them. > > Please spread this awareness. > > Xah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
