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The title for this post can be considered a misnomer. I think it should read:

Well if you do write perfect software you are kicking yourself in your er.. belly, and sitting on the branch side of the saw.

For any commercial company/ enterprise writing perfect and bug free software would mean:

• Happy and smiling Customers (hmm... that is a good)
• Satisfied customers (this is also good)
  But satisfied customers implies
  • Less opportunities for upgrades (why should your customer upgrade if he is satisfied with the current product
  • Less business to you (no upgrades, no money, no business ok maybe less business)
  • Less opportunity to grow business (dont you know business means using someone else's money for own profit)

So the moral:

• Write **sufficiently** perfect software, atleast try to give a marketing illusion of perfectness
• give them the marketing facts
• get your product into market even before it is ready, try to get final release version even when it is termed as alpha by the damned developers
• Ask your project managers to meet imaginary deadlines defined by your marketing guys or even better you.

There lies your future, never be too concerned about customer. Dont commit the fallacy of making your _current_paying_customer_ to your _once_upon_a_time_but_now_happy_and_satisfied_customer_, make the rat ask for more, make the rat shell out the money that actually belongs to you. Promise him a vista/ a wallpaper/ a new icon set/ themes/ music/ games or something.

Ahh.. but those silly free(dom) software people, they are creating software in collaboration to reduce cost, loving what they do, take pride in it, develop communities, share code and above all remain poor for rest of their damned lives. Silly, they think they will achieve the nirwana of the perfect software. What if they do, the software is finished maybe final release, what after that no upgrades. Maybe small neenie teenie updates and ports to an 80486 or whatever poor old machines they have for their personal use.

boring...

NOTE: I know i am biased, but hey even I do not write anything perfect.