RE: Media Excitement!

["Kohlenberg, Toby" <toby.kohlenberg () intel com>]

"Aitel disputes the mantra that patches are the ultimate remedy.
"Patching is terribly expensive," he says. "You have to test and test to
ensure that your applications all work after the patch. And then
deploying a patch in a medium-sized firm will cost many hundreds of
thousands. How many companies are prepared - or even have - this kind of
money to spend on deploying a patch?"" 

Okay, so I agree with every one of these statements. 
Now, what's the alternative to patching?

There will always be flaws in software, no matter how 
hard people try to write good code, so do we just try
to minimize patching or are you actually suggesting that
patching shouldn't be necessary at all?

toby

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