My question is

Post #39,387 by Steven A S 5/21/02 11:38:41 AM Reply	My question is If they know those problems are there, WHY DON'T THEY FIX THEM!!! ~~~)-Steven---- "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..." General George S. Patton
Post #39,399 by hnick 5/21/02 1:14:41 PM Reply	Well, Duh... There's no money to be made for fixing existing products. The suckers have already paid. Suckers MAY pay for the next semi-polished turd that is ejected however. And they won't fix that either... They don't develop software, they run a software licensing business... bletch...
Post #39,470 by static 5/22/02 1:57:22 AM Reply	That's a Good quote! "They don't develop software, they run a software licensing business..." It may be worth pinching. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #41,121 by wharris2 6/4/02 1:31:58 PM Reply	My answer is If they know those problems are there, WHY DON'T THEY FIX THEM!!! Have you had the chance to work on bad code? Many times it's more cost-efficient to make minor fixes, or ignore the problems. I'm currently working on undocumented stuff (to the point where even the setup of the process is only documented by some rather poor hand-written notes), and another batch of code that is taking 17 hours to run when it should take something like 1-2 hours at most. Both are miserable examples of code, seriously undocumented. I can't really ignore either of them, but it's taking an inordinate time to understand and correct those things I can. Famous last RPG quotes: "I'll just shoot this fireball down the dungeon passageway..."

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