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Reminds me of Windows deliberately recreating bugs in their software, because applications had been developed that relied on the buggy implementation.

I'm really big on testing, and fixing bugs as close to their point of creation as possible.

I first read about that, over a quarter-century ago[0].

“plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose “

–Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

[0] https://stevemcconnell.com/articles/software-quality-at-top-... (He's never gotten around to fixing his broken images on that page).




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