Re: VS2005 Beta2 vs VS2005 Release

Hi 40th, let's start some discussion here, or if this discussion was
held at some other place i'm interested to discover other persons ideas
about it.
Why don't we receive financial compensation for discovery of bugs ?
The explanation of 'we found this bug earlier and are trying to decide
when to
update stuff' could be a legal thing so they won't be sued for the
copyright
you hold on this bug. Or am i going too far now ?
In the case of finding a compiler-bug we're not talking about consumers
finding
a problem with a device and reporting it in a very unclear way.
In your case it's a detailed explanation of where the problem is, so
you'd at least
be regarded seriously, but it did cost you a lot of time to find out
and many competing
companies will profit from your hard work.
So , you could even decide not to mention the bug and work-around it so
you keep an edge on the competition, but things don't really move on
then.
In the case of Microsoft, we're talking about a company that earns
extra profit from persons like you who discover bugs in their released
products and give a detailed explanation of what internally goes wrong
in their product so they don't have to spend
much time in finding the cause.

Some sort of bonus-arrangement would be in order i believe. Maybe they
have this internally already ?
An extra advantage would be that to make this bonus-arrangement work,
Microsoft has
to publicly keep a VERY uptodate list of known bugs. Anyone who
discovers a new
bug will see if it's already there and can send the new one. I can
imagine there's a big bonus for compilers-bugs, smaller for IDE-bugs,
etc.

But that would be in an ideal world.
Or ?

Cheers, Joost

hel@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Yes. Admitted, even. But I wouldn't hold out
> much hope on the fix being made available. The
> compiler guy poo-pooed the problem saying it's
> not very likely to happen. Riiiight. He didn't
> even look at the problem as I presented it, so
> it may even be a brand new bug. It will happen.
>
> d- [Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:11:00 -0000]:
> >Are there MS details somewhere regarding said bug ?
>
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