Subject: Seven Software Companies Added To "Watch List"
From: (Angel)
Newsgroups: nz.general
New York-People for Ethical Treatment of Software (PETS) announced
today that seven more software companies have been added to the
group’s "watch list" of companies that regularly practice
software testing. "There is no need for software to be mistreated
in this way so that companies like these can market new products,"
said Ken Grandola, spokesperson for PETS. "Alternative methods
of testing these products are available." According to PETS,
these companies force software to undergo lengthy and arduous tests,
often without rest, for hours or days at a time. Employees are assigned
to "break" the software by any means necessary, and inside
sources report that they often joke about "torturing"
the software. "It’s no joke," said Grandola. "Innocent
programs, from the day they are compiled, are cooped up in tiny
rooms and "crashed" for hours on end. They spend their
whole lives on dirty, ill-maintained computers, and are unceremoniously
deleted when they’re not needed anymore." Grandola said the
software is kept in unsanitary Windows and is infested with bugs.
"We know that alternatives to this horror exist," he said,
citing industry giant Microsoft Corporation as a company that has
become successful without resorting to software testing.
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