By now, the VMWare "time bomb" issue would have been flogged to death. May be not ...
It will be revisited every time there is a major debacle. However, I tend to pity their QA team. After all, they are a bunch of engineers who will be finger pointed for what was basically a business policy. May be for verifying proprietary stuff, companies should be having a separate QA team to verify things like license, expiry codes etc?
I can assure you, such stuff won't happen with FOSS software.
As any self respecting QA engineer knows, there 2 equal and opposite forces that act on different ends to create torque that keeps the software "cycle" rotating -
1.) the evil force called QA logs high severity bugs forecasting catastrophe as inevitability in the system to get the wheel in motion.
2.) Development aka heroes (why are they always commended for fixing a bug when they coded badly in the first place?) as part of evaluation predict completely opposite rosier picture and soothe nerves saying such things rarely happen in real world and fixes aren't urgent.
Much like Ying and Yang, these opposing forces teach humility, eternal battle between good and evil etc.
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