Comments on: Bounty for Vista coders who squish bugs at home

Top engineer urges Vista team members to spend weekend hunting down bugs. The reward? $100 per problem fixed.

[LIGC]

Dilbert

This reminds me of a Dilbert comic where the boss gave $20 to every programmer who fixed a bug and $20 to each Quality Assurance guy for finding a bug. The result: a bug black market where programmers create bugs to be found, and one guy netting $1200 in a week.

[Hernys]

Joke

I remember that joke. "Hey, I'm going to write myself a new minivan!".
But keep in mind that Vista is pretty much written at this point, there's almost no new code being added, so it's just about cleaning up code already written. If anything, this may be a problem for the next product if it sets a precedent and the developers know it.

[LIGC]

Dilbert

This reminds me of a Dilbert comic where the boss gave $20 to every programmer who fixed a bug and $20 to each Quality Assurance guy for finding a bug. The result: a bug black market where programmers create bugs to be found, and one guy netting $1200 in a week.

[Hernys]

Joke

I remember that joke. "Hey, I'm going to write myself a new minivan!".
But keep in mind that Vista is pretty much written at this point, there's almost no new code being added, so it's just about cleaning up code already written. If anything, this may be a problem for the next product if it sets a precedent and the developers know it.

[buldir]

Wow!

Are things that bad over there in Redmond? Forget the $500
Monday bonus to employees. If MS open-sourced Vista, ALL of the
bugs would get fixed by Monday.

[buldir]

Wow!

Are things that bad over there in Redmond? Forget the $500
Monday bonus to employees. If MS open-sourced Vista, ALL of the
bugs would get fixed by Monday.

[pjianwei]

Give me a cup of water and i give you 10 cents

mean water is widely available. Give me a cup of water and i give you 100 dollars means water is rather scarce or money is rather worthless.
In this case are bugs widely available or is money too valuable?

[pjianwei]

Give me a cup of water and i give you 10 cents

mean water is widely available. Give me a cup of water and i give you 100 dollars means water is rather scarce or money is rather worthless.
In this case are bugs widely available or is money too valuable?

[J. Blow]

How Stupid does he think the employees are?

Flat stock for 5 years +, spend all weekend reformating, installing, and bug checking, all for a chance to get $500?

Who would sign up for that?

[Peter Bonte]

No bugs found = fired?

This is no more than modern slavery, most of them won't find more
than 1 bug a weekend so its very cheap labor for MS.

There's 10.000 people working on Vista but that won't make it
faster or better, more the opposite.

[baswwe]

You would if you programmed the bugs in!!

Wooo hoooo!!! Someone is going to be rich!!!

[J. Blow]

How Stupid does he think the employees are?

Flat stock for 5 years +, spend all weekend reformating, installing, and bug checking, all for a chance to get $500?

Who would sign up for that?

[Peter Bonte]

No bugs found = fired?

This is no more than modern slavery, most of them won't find more
than 1 bug a weekend so its very cheap labor for MS.

There's 10.000 people working on Vista but that won't make it
faster or better, more the opposite.

[baswwe]

You would if you programmed the bugs in!!

Wooo hoooo!!! Someone is going to be rich!!!

[microsoft slayer]

How dumb

i'd rather create bugs for vista than fix it.

[microsoft slayer]

How dumb

i'd rather create bugs for vista than fix it.

[Peter Bonte]

Windows turtle 2020?

If you find a bug, keep it to yourself until ya get a bounty. :)

This is a desperate move by the management and things will just
slow down. If the bounty is only 100$ then there has to be lots of
them, this will be a bug infested Windows.

[Stalin Hornsby]

2220 Hitman is driving a new Cadillac.

xoxo's

[Peter Bonte]

Windows turtle 2020?

If you find a bug, keep it to yourself until ya get a bounty. :)

This is a desperate move by the management and things will just
slow down. If the bounty is only 100$ then there has to be lots of
them, this will be a bug infested Windows.

[Stalin Hornsby]

2220 Hitman is driving a new Cadillac.

xoxo's

[Jackson Cracker]

Won't this bankrupt the company?

Several billion bugs @ $100 apiece?
Even Gates and Embalmer don't have that much.

[Jackson Cracker]

Won't this bankrupt the company?

Several billion bugs @ $100 apiece?
Even Gates and Embalmer don't have that much.

[ackmondual]

similar to another story i heard

A colleague of mine mentioned a story of another co-worker at her old job. He put on his resume that he was responsible for fixing a series of bugs that would've caused millions of $$ of lose. What was omitted was the fact that he was the cause for those series of bugs!!

[ackmondual]

similar to another story i heard

A colleague of mine mentioned a story of another co-worker at her old job. He put on his resume that he was responsible for fixing a series of bugs that would've caused millions of $$ of lose. What was omitted was the fact that he was the cause for those series of bugs!!