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NIST Estimates Sloppy Coding Costs $60 Billion/Year
An anonymous reader submits: "Computerworld is reporting on a government study just released that software bugs are costing the U.S. economy an
estimated $59.5 billion each year, with more than half of the cost borne by end users and the remainder by developers and vendors. Better testing could allegedly cut that by one-third."
It originally only cost the economy $6 a year, but there was an unfortunate rounding error in the code that figured out the total cost...
Fixing mailbox bugs in Outlook alone cover my car payments.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
So does this $60 billion offset the amount of money that the software industry claims they lose to software pirates?
How much money do software pirates lose by using illegal copies of sloppily coded software?
How much money do MY bugs cost? Do fatal bugs in my code actually RETURN productivity to the workforce? Do bugs in my code actually make money for the US economy?
This is why software, by law, should explode like an atom bomb when a sigfault occurrs. ;)
.. if we were developing bridges, etc, you'd see alot more caution and listening on the part of management and achitects (nevermind that for *some* reason, more managers in the engineering biz are .. gasp, actually engineers!) if there were physical costs to buggy software, rather than (mostly) economic costs.
Anyhow, I'm glibly musing, but for the record, I totally agree with you.
"Old man yells at systemd"
US Population: approx 0.25Bn
Cost of Windows XP: $200
Total cost: $50Bn
Yeah sounds about right
2. The BSA tells us that piracy costs the idustry about 11 biliion.
As far as I can tell, the software industry owes us around 19 Billion in refunds.
Isn't playing with fake statistics wonderful?
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black