The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

C++ is a pile of crap.