Quote: "For fun, just to demonstrate how many software products are released with known bugs, go to Google and type in the following:
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Quote: "Known bugs are known bugs. Whether or not they are known before release or they are made aware of them after a release is not the issue"
Of course it is the issue. If the product is released with known bugs then it is likely to have many, many more unknown bugs. Apart from hardware issues, and problems dealing with legacy software, there were probably very few known bugs when Windows was released. The "known bugs" are those found and acknowledged by MS *since* release.
Quote: "Bug testing is what the ea is for, i don't see why they will not release it on the 11 as said unless there is something major wrong."
No, the purpose of the EA is not bug testing. That is what the betas are for. The purpose of the EA is to get customer feedback on features and usability, amongst other things.
Quote: "As long as there are no critical bugs, my opinion is release it on schedule, otherwise you will undermine customer confidence (starting with me )"
Even fairly minor 'bugs' can be hugely irritating if you encounter them very frequently. For example (and this is *not* a real bug, I just made it up), if FPSC positioned all entities upside-down by default, that would not prevent you from working with the software, but it would take away hours of productive time from users. Surely it would be better, in that case, to wait a couple more days before releasing it.
Software is rapidly increasing in size and complexity, and the industry is having enough problems preventing instability issues from running wildly out of control as it is. The last thing it needs is an apathetic attitude from the next generation of software engineers.
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