[28615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re: product liability (was: Virus Update)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Tue May 9 18:06:40 2000
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:03:28 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <200005092144.RAA20973@oa.eiv.com>; from smcmahon@eiv.com on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:44:57PM -0400
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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:44:57PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> You're talking about a product sold under the advertising promise that
> little to no training is necessary, and with default behavior that makes it
> TRIVIAL to write crap like this.
i guess this is the gist of my argument.
companies should not be buying into solutions that require "little or no
training". computer networks/applications are getting more and more
complicated.
if they think they can save money on salaries by getting software that doesn't
require a knowledgeable person to set it up, well, then they get what they
pay for.
> But as it is, even large companies that don't use Outlook had expensive
> damage, because of Microsoft shipping complex unmanageable
> cruft-accumulated bloatware that can't be locked down very well even by the
> top experts in the field without removing functionality that Microsoft
> proclaims to the world that you need to go Where You Want To Go Today.
crappy software is a fact of life.
> Where I want to go today is to work without having to recover 1,300 files
> damaged by two idiots double-clicking something they shouldn't have.
>
> Ask CBS' network folks where they want to go today. They'll probably tell
> you "to Redmond, with AK-47s".
probably best to take those AK-47s and go after the bonehead who made the
decision to use the crappy software.
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