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[Marc Lavallée]

Le Février 3, 2006 5:MM PM, Yves Degoyon a écrit :
> putting restrictions clauses for commercial companies and
> security/surveillance companies is just doing ethical software,
> and those who don't like it, well, i don't care...

SEVEN SOFTWARE COMPANIES ADDED TO "WATCH LIST"

New York, NJ, Nov. 11 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Software (PETS) 
announced today that seven more software companies have been added to the 
group's "watch list" of companies that regularly practice software testing.

"There is no need for software to be mistreated in this way so that companies 
like these can market new products," said Ken Granola, spokesperson for PETS. 
"Alternative methods of testing these products are available."

According to PETS, these companies force software to undergo lengthly and 
arduous tests, often without rest for hours or days at a time. Employees are 
assigned to "break" the software by any means necessary, and inside sources 
report that they often joke about "torturing" the software.

"It's no joke," said Granola. "Innocent programs, from the day they are 
compiled, are cooped up in tiny rooms and 'crashed' for hours on end. They 
spend their whole lives on dirty, ill-maintained computers, and are 
unceremoniously deleted when they're not needed anymore." Granola said the 
software is kept in unsanitary conditions and is infested with bugs.

"We know alternatives to this horror exist," he said, citing industry giant 
Microsoft Corp. as a company that has become extremely successful without 
resorting to software testing.

PETS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of software 
programs and promoting alternatives to software testing.

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Marc