This is a rather interesting post on the current state of the software industry, and it has sparked a lively discussion in the comments section.
These things are fairly typical of the modern relationship with computers. I’ve gotten so used to it that I didn’t really think about how odd this is until this morning, when I read somebody on LiveJournal talking about a video game crash, saying “I should know better than to purchase a game before the first patch is out…” Then it hit me: Has there ever been a bigger con job pulled on consumers than the modern software industry?