Reply to post: "Software houses as a bug mfg machine" is an idea that's been around a *long* time.

"Software houses as a bug mfg machine" is an idea that's been around a *long* time.

After all "perfect" software would need no support, would it?

So no need of a support contract, right?

Let me suggest that this attitude (conscious or not) has a lot to do with the state of modern software, and vice versa.

I'd love to see a software house set up to approach every job in the sort of methodical way IBM Federal Systems (the model for the CMM5 level) did it.

But it took them a long time to get there.