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The idea of introducing bugs to users that doesn’t conform 100% to intended use of your software is not good idea, what will happen is that your software will b

by tored 3y ago

The idea of introducing bugs to users that doesn’t conform 100% to intended use of your software is not good idea, what will happen is that your software will be perceived as buggy in general.

tourgen 3y ago
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i2cmaster 3y ago
Most people will tolerate the bugs until they absolutely cannot use whatever software they're running though.
- ndespres 3y ago
  When they reach that unusability limit, most people will call their IT department and have the offending buggy software reinstalled as a fix. IT won’t remove your buggy copy of Microsoft Word and Teams and replace it with WordPerfect and Slack.
  - i2cmaster 3y ago
    I should have said "people and organizations" because that's what I meant. The mechanism with organizations works like you said yes. They'll just develop processes to work around the bugs until it becomes completely impossible.
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    But Word has competitors like GSuite so it cannot be completely complacent. People are making these buying decisions constantly.
    - trelane 3y ago
      It's had competitors forever. The lockin is from UI, file formats, compatibility generally (e.g. functions), scripting / existing infra around it, and its utter dominance in the market ("nobody got fired for buying Microsoft")
- trelane 3y ago
  Depends on whether it's common or not. If a smaller competitor has bugs, the default is something else, and folks will go yo the default and look askance at the ones sticking with the odd duck software. Source: Linux user since the 90s, LibreOffice/OpenOffice/StarOffice since early '00s.
avereveard 3y ago
You are literally commenting under an article of a company having a 2billion market cap, built also from such underhanded tactics. While it's immoral, it doesn't seem to produce the result that you hope it's be producing.
- tored 3y ago
  Microsoft's software is definitely perceived as buggy (And I never said anything about revenue).
pjc50 3y ago
> what will happen is that your software Not your software, a competitor's software. The intent here was to inject bugs to make DRDOS look bad. And it worked. Later Microsoft would have to spend many long years dealing with how many extension points they'd put in Windows which were opportunities for third parties to inject crashes accidentally into Microsoft executables. That's why there's an entire subsystem to allow video drivers to crash and restart.
mrguyorama 3y ago
Those users would have been running DR-DOS, meaning they would assume THAT software is buggy. Which was the entire point and intention, as we saw in an email chain that came out during court.

by tored 3y ago

The idea of introducing bugs to users that doesn’t conform 100% to intended use of your software is not good idea, what will happen is that your software will be perceived as buggy in general.

tourgen 3y ago

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i2cmaster 3y ago

Most people will tolerate the bugs until they absolutely cannot use whatever software they're running though.

ndespres 3y ago
When they reach that unusability limit, most people will call their IT department and have the offending buggy software reinstalled as a fix. IT won’t remove your buggy copy of Microsoft Word and Teams and replace it with WordPerfect and Slack.
- i2cmaster 3y ago
  I should have said "people and organizations" because that's what I meant. The mechanism with organizations works like you said yes. They'll just develop processes to work around the bugs until it becomes completely impossible.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  But Word has competitors like GSuite so it cannot be completely complacent. People are making these buying decisions constantly.
  - trelane 3y ago
    It's had competitors forever. The lockin is from UI, file formats, compatibility generally (e.g. functions), scripting / existing infra around it, and its utter dominance in the market ("nobody got fired for buying Microsoft")
trelane 3y ago
Depends on whether it's common or not. If a smaller competitor has bugs, the default is something else, and folks will go yo the default and look askance at the ones sticking with the odd duck software. Source: Linux user since the 90s, LibreOffice/OpenOffice/StarOffice since early '00s.

avereveard 3y ago

You are literally commenting under an article of a company having a 2billion market cap, built also from such underhanded tactics. While it's immoral, it doesn't seem to produce the result that you hope it's be producing.

tored 3y ago
Microsoft's software is definitely perceived as buggy (And I never said anything about revenue).

pjc50 3y ago

> what will happen is that your software Not your software, a competitor's software. The intent here was to inject bugs to make DRDOS look bad. And it worked. Later Microsoft would have to spend many long years dealing with how many extension points they'd put in Windows which were opportunities for third parties to inject crashes accidentally into Microsoft executables. That's why there's an entire subsystem to allow video drivers to crash and restart.

mrguyorama 3y ago

Those users would have been running DR-DOS, meaning they would assume THAT software is buggy. Which was the entire point and intention, as we saw in an email chain that came out during court.