[wballard]

Hmm — fake analogy. Bridge fall down would be more on the scale of, a software install stopped all service permanently, self erased, and could never be restarted.

Real software quality issues are more like re paving, painting, new cables, scraping off rust, closing for inspection — and slow commute traffic over the bridge.

Argument by analogy is just sophistry, the real argument is to precisely account for the total economic cost of defects, and what the cost would be to correct them. But that is a lot more effort than I have ever seen in a blog post.