www/philosophy bug.html

[James Turner]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     James Turner <jturner>  12/06/08 01:18:49

Added files:
        philosophy     : bug.html 

Log message:
        Add new "The bug nobody is allowed to understand" article.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/bug.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.68 -->
+<title>The Bug Nobody is Allowed to Understand
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#set var="article_name" value="/philosophy/bug" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<h2>The Bug Nobody is Allowed to Understand</h2>
+
+<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
+
+<p>In the 1980s, proprietary software users discovered the problem of
+<em>the bug that nobody is allowed to understand</em>. When a problem
+occurs in the interaction of multiple proprietary software packages
+with different developers, none of them is allowed to study the source
+code of all the pertinent programs. As a result, none of them can
+understand the bad interaction between them, and the bug is never
+fixed except by accident.</p>
+
+<p>According to <a
+href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/joris-luyendijk-banking-blog/2012/may/30/former-it-salesman-voices-of-finance";
+this article</a>, a similar problem now occurs between
+multiple instances of Software as a Service.</p>
+
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+</p>
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2012/06/08 01:18:42 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>