[2830] in Humor
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerrod Wiesman)
Tue May 25 16:49:37 1999
From: Jerrod Wiesman <jerrod@arepa.com>
To: "'humor@mit.edu'" <humor@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:38:37 -0400
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 4:19 PM
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> New York, NJ, August 27 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of
> Software (PETS) announced today that seven more software companies
> have been added to the group's "watch list" of companies that
> regularly practice software testing.
> "There is no need for software to be mistreated in this way so
> that companies like these can market new products," said Ken Granola,
> spokesperson for PETS. "Alternative methods of testing these products
> are available." According to PETS, these companies force software to
> undergo lengthy and arduous tests, often without rest for hours or
> days at a time. Employees are assigned to "break" the software by any
> means necessary, and inside sources report that they often joke about
> "torturing" the software.
> "It's no joke," said Granola. "Innocent programs, from the day they
> are compiled, are cooped up in tiny rooms and 'crashed' for hours on
> end. They spend their whole lives on dirty, ill-maintained computers,
> and are unceremoniously deleted when they're not needed anymore."
> Granola said the software is kept in unsanitary conditions and is
> infested with bugs.
> "We know alternatives to this horror exist," he said,
> citing industry
> giant Microsoft Corp. as a company that has become extremely
> successful
> without resorting to any form of software testing. PETS is a nonprofit
> organization dedicated to improving the lives of software programs and
> promoting alternatives to software testing.
>
> -L
>
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