<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Lennart Poettering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mzerqung@0pointer.de" target="_blank">mzerqung@0pointer.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">You do realize that if software engineering has shown something then<br>
yes, software development is never finished, it's a process. You do need<br>
maintains for such things.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The software in my microwave oven, coffee maker, thermostat, DVD player, stereo receiver, and many processors in my car (including engine control, antilock brakes, and many others) is quite definitely finished. That's not to say that there aren't any bugs, but the vendors aren't sending me any updated versions. That's an existence proof that software *can* be "good enough" and not need updates. Granted, most software is not "good enough", but the lack of updates to a piece of software is not sufficient to establish a priori that the software should be discarded.<br>
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