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myrrlyn on March 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bugs in Hello World

given that the sole purpose of software is to do what people want, "it didn't do what i want" is automatically incorrect behavior

monkpit on March 9, 2022 [–]

So that would mean as soon as your software has 2 users, it is broken because it doesn’t conform to their 2 (different) imaginary specs?

thfuran on March 9, 2022 | [–]

Yes, unless you have a sufficiently complex and inscrutable EULA to point to as proof that at least one of the users was out of spec.

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