So you expect a company of 15 people to be able to have bug free software? Even Microsoft with it's 32,000 people.. many of those are development and QA, can't even do that. IBM can't do that. No company can do that, not even hardware companies.
Who said anything about bug free software? I was commenting on the fact that many companies put so much emphasis on features that they have no resources left to squish bugs.
Here's an analogy (groan...): Suppose you live in a house that has all the basics- bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, but that's about it. You've always wanted a game room where you could put your large screen TV, pool table, foosball table, etc., so you decide to knock down a wall and start building the game room addition of your dreams. In the mean time, your kitchen is just crawling with roaches and every morning when you get out of bed you have to brush the bed bugs off yourself. What would
you tackle first, exterminating the bugs that have been making your life a hell on earth, or building the game room? (I know what I'd do first...)
I don't have a Flex radio yet, but I have played with PowerSDR in demo mode. I've encountered many issues that cause either an unhandled exception error or a total application crash. And this was just in about an hour of use. So we're not taking about eradicating every last bug as you seen to imply, but bugs severe enough to cause crashes. No software company, I don't care how large or small, should
ever let software like that outside their doors. It's not professional, unless the software is clearly labeled as alpha and the users have been warned.