Does anyone take pride in the quality of software?

In a ZDNet article James Coplien is quoted as saying …

the only area of the industry where people still take pride in the quality of the software they deliver is the open source community.

Having worked in the commercial software development space for the last 5+ years, I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree!

Software quality suffers as a direct result of business as usual attitudes such as time to market, impossible deadlines, unclear requirements and lack of vision. The sooner consumers start to demand better quality software, the better.

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