Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 03, 2003 01:12 AM
While I'll agree computers add a tremendous boost to any nations GDP, asserting that the most important code is insured against failure is insane. Read a EULA sometime, you'll be most unpleasantly surprised, I guarantee it.
Even if you can afford to pay for 'guaranteed' uptime on servers and workstations, penalties for failure come in the form of a financial rebate for downtime. Additionally, you can't guarantee any network with internet access won't be downed by faulty equipment (see cisco's latest buffer overflow), DDOS'ed, or spammed with virus and worms.
Unfotunately, this means that good code with minimal deficencies does have a parallel to art in that it's rare and potentially cost prohibitive.
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Re:Code is insurance?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 03, 2003 01:12 AMEven if you can afford to pay for 'guaranteed' uptime on servers and workstations, penalties for failure come in the form of a financial rebate for downtime. Additionally, you can't guarantee any network with internet access won't be downed by faulty equipment (see cisco's latest buffer overflow), DDOS'ed, or spammed with virus and worms.
Unfotunately, this means that good code with minimal deficencies does have a parallel to art in that it's rare and potentially cost prohibitive.
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