Agreed! My personal bias against a system depends on if it failed at it's primary purpose or not. I've had a lot of things fail in a lot of ways and I'm genera

Agreed! My personal bias against a system depends on if it failed at it's primary purpose or not. I've had a lot of things fail in a lot of ways and I'm generally pretty forgiving, but there are some things that are just inexcusable. Some examples: * A popular (at the time) version control system started to silently overwrite files when it ran out of disk space. We discovered this when we retrieved source code that had parts of another file in it. * A UPS vendor had a product that tested the battery by turning off the power. When the battery ultimately failed our servers were powered off automatically. This happened randomly about every 3 weeks (usually on a weekend evening). It took us months to find the cause. I can't come back from these problems. So, if the system is a bit slow or crashes sometimes or has other weird problems, I'm OK with that. If it bites me specifically where it's supposed to protect me, it's out, forever.