[sdiy] ot: is it true that Waldorf crashed?

[Grant Richter]

> THAT is 75% of the reason they went under, p1ss off the customers with
> promise after promise and never quite managing to deliver...

Again, sorry, but that would cover just about any project involving software
development that I have been on. I have never yet seen an implementation
that achieved 100% of the software goals.

This is in spite of super-human efforts on the part of the engineers,
software and hardware. The debugging can drag on for years.

I place the blame on management, who only think software engineers are
working if they are typing. They best software engineer I worked with would
spend 8 weeks defining a program and two days typing it.

As he put it, "I don't need to debug, I don't put bugs in to begin with".

But he was always under tremendous pressure from the engineering manager "to
be doing something". (i.e. why aren't you typing every day)