> I guess it's just a false justification people use to stick to familiar broken old technology and broken ways or maybe to avoid relying on people with rare ex

> I guess it's just a false justification people use to stick to familiar broken old technology and broken ways or maybe to avoid relying on people with rare expertise, I don't know. This sounds a bit nose in the air to me. > Systems really have to be designed for reliability if reliability is important and currently software reliability is too cutting edge to be boring. And yet, people have posted examples of "boring" software running for over a decade.