Bob,

Hardware failure modes are much better understood.

Says who? Numbers, please.

You think you understand software failure modes?
Please enlightment me.

You made a claim. You back it up.

What's the reliability of software?

Not sure I understand the question.

exactly. Nobody agrees on what software reliability means.

I guess the ton of scientific literature out there disagrees. Just one
link easily found:
http://satc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/IS...trics_and_reli
ability.html


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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)