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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Agreed. There's no such thing as bug free software.
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If only regular people know how many known issues most software tends to ship with (when there is a sizable QA/test org). They'd probably either drop their jaw or complain even more loudly. One of the factors used when deciding to fix a bug is: how likely is it that someone will hit it? Bugs with a higher likelihood of being hit will get fixed first. Or bugs that do bad things like crash the device, delete data, etc...
I've got a list of bugs that we decided not to fix because we didn't have time and thought they were hard enough to find that we'd rather not have a heart-attack trying to fix them through a death march. Sure enough, a good couple years after the software was released,
one of a good hundred+ actually turned into a customer issue, which we worked with them to fix.
With the size of iRex, I'd not be terribly surprised that something like an odd indicator light behavior got missed. I've seen worse go unnoticed inside the company I work for, for months before we find it and wonder how the hell we missed it.