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<msissom@dnaent.com> wrote:
>jedi@dementia.mishnet () wrote:
>>People seldom tolerate the level of poor quality present
>>in the software market in any other area. People simply
>>know better and know that they can and should expect
>>better with no technophobia or anti-intellectuallisms
>>to hinder their exploration and understanding of the
>>subject.
>This toleration is simply evidence of the immaturity of the
>marketplace. Cars and car manufacturers were around for a
>century before we had "Lemon-Laws" and recalls by the
>manufacturers.

A century? Had the internal combustion engine been invented in 1898, let
alone 100 years before 'lemon laws'?

Furthermore, telephones are more recent. Mobile telephony yet more recent,
(more recent than computers) and you shouldn't tolerate any failures but
battery life and signal strength. Televisions are not expected to fail
every day, and - as I pointed out earlier - routing hardware is much
younger than the computer industry, and expected to work like a rock. The
maturity of a marketplace is not an excuse for low standards - at least
not when the marketplace (in computers) is older than I am.
-- 
David/Kirsty Damerell.                       damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk
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