> reward the best product, instead I see the cheapest product being rewarded. That's because you are looking at best from one angle and the market from another

> reward the best product, instead I see the cheapest product being rewarded. That's because you are looking at best from one angle and the market from another. To the "market" the best may well be the cheapest thing that mostly does it's job/most of the time. When I was young I used to think users cared about bugs and they do but they only care when the bugs are sufficient in number and degree to cross a threshold where they outweigh the utility of the software, That sort of 1 in 100 times it loses an hours work, well if the 99 times it saves me an hours work, shrug. What we (as techies and I'm generalising wildly here) want to build is heirloom quality carpentry, what we get to actually build is franken-furniture from ikea packs that we hope has some some instructions and won't fall apart next week.