From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.wiretrip.org!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news From: starwars Message: This is a Type II anonymous message, sent to you by the Winston Smith Project StarwarS mixmaster server at pboxmix.winstonsmith.info. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact pbox-admin@winstonsmith.info. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop References: Message-ID: <8bd88ec5e6b94d7a9924f620f3c35dab@tatooine.homelinux.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:47:50 +0200 (CEST) Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11859 Date: 2010-06-21T21:47:50+02:00 List-Id: > I think you are generally right, until you get to "Quality > no longer matters". I think it usually _does_ matter, but as > you say, they've come to accept bugs as "normal". A quality > product is still the goal from semi-honest companies. Certainly > from a competitive pov. That is simply not the case in several markets I am aware of, to the extent that the management called all the staff together and announced something like "We are no longer interested in being the best or putting out the best code. We studied the market and being the best is too expensive and not a priority for our customers. We are going to realign to do an adequate job and save everybody money since that is what the market is telling us." This is from a very prominent software company, and they are not alone.