Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:24:08 +0200 From: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Funny interview with Mr Gates Message-ID: <342FF248.167EB0E7@mdstud.chalmers.se>
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Hi! http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html This is an interview with Bill Gates. A really absurd one. :-) <snap> Gates: Guess how much we spend on phone calls every year. FOCUS: Hm, a couple of million dollars? Gates: 500 million dollars a year. We take every one of these phone calls and classify them. That's the input we use to do the next version. So it's like the worlds biggest feedback loop. People call in - we decide what to do on it. Do you want to know what percentage of those phonecalls relates to bugs in the software? Less than one percent. FOCUS: So people call in to say "Hey listen, I would love to have this and that feature"? Gates: Actually, that's about five percent. Most of them call to get advice on how to do a certain thing with the software. That's the primary thing. We could have you sit and listen to these phone calls. There are millions and millions of them. It really isn't statistically significant. Sit in and listen to Win 95 calls, sit in and listen to Word calls, and wait, just wait for weeks and weeks for someone to call in and say "Oh, I found a bug in this thing". ... <snap> Read the entire page. Mvh: Tommy
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