[LAU] How can we convert money to fixing bugs in software?

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On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:11:56 -0400
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
> alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Charles Henry wrote:
> >
> > > Also, you never know how long you'll spend working on a problem, until
> > > you actually do it.
> >
> > Not only that. It's also quite possible that users will never collect
> > the amount of money required to implement or fix something.
> >
> 
> its even worse. even if you can tell how long you will spend fixing a
> problem, you don't find out till you've done 90% of the fix already.

This is the exact parallel of the situation with electronic repairs. The
number of times I've been asked for a repair estimate... and the customer
*never* believes it takes 5 hours to find an O/C resistor or that actually
finding it *is* the fix.

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