by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:29PM (#55145083)
Why can't these billion-dollar companies create a consortium to make a systematic audit of such code from start to finish? They'd all benefit enormously.
Oh, that's actually simple to answer. To the very last man, they'd all rather die than do anything that helps their competition even one tiny bit, even if they would have come out well ahead in the end. They simply don't buy into the old "a rising tide raises all ships" adage, and they're not interested enough in benevolent gestures to even invest serious time finding out it's true.
Why can't these billion-dollar companies create a consortium to make a systematic audit of such code from start to finish? They'd all benefit enormously.
The same reason they are using crap software in the first place. Big business is like overfed government agencies extremely incompetent and inefficient.
The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic
light table for cutting and pasting documents.
You'd think they'd put their money to good use! (Score:0)
Why can't these billion-dollar companies create a consortium to make a systematic audit of such code from start to finish? They'd all benefit enormously.
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Oh, that's actually simple to answer. To the very last man, they'd all rather die than do anything that helps their competition even one tiny bit, even if they would have come out well ahead in the end. They simply don't buy into the old "a rising tide raises all ships" adage, and they're not interested enough in benevolent gestures to even invest serious time finding out it's true.
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A rising tide raises all ships, so the other captains will have to come up with a solution and then we'll just piggy-back it.
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Why can't these billion-dollar companies create a consortium to make a systematic audit of such code from start to finish? They'd all benefit enormously.
The same reason they are using crap software in the first place. Big business is like overfed government agencies extremely incompetent and inefficient.