Talk:List of software bugs

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I propose renaming to List of software bugs and introducing the lead text: This is a selected list of software bugs.

"Notable" in the title is a bit redundant as it is a key WP policy anyway. The article is well referenced and is looking good! Marasmusine (talk) 15:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I thought long and hard about that. If this was a 'List of software bugs' then there would be grounds for claiming that the list would always be (very!) incomplete and the majority of entries would be non-notable - and before you know it, a bunch of rabid deletionists would AfD it into oblivion. By explicitly limiting it to notable bugs - those that have caused serious damage or loss of life, I am attempting to preserve the information it contains and to prevent it bloating out of control. It may be possible to come up with a name such as "List of software bugs that caused loss of human life or more than ten million dollars worth of damage"...but the reason I didn't do that should be self-evident!

FYI: The information contained here comes mostly from the Software bug page where the original list was starting to look bloated and ugly - hence the relocation of that information here. Since all of the bugs listed here were indeed notable, there is no problem (except I ran out of time today!) with getting them all referenced adequately. Indeed, one way I hope we can prevent listcruft in this case is to relentlessly prune unreferenced entries...but that'll have to wait until tomorrow when I get the remainder of the current entries referenced with modern cite-style. SteveBaker (talk) 20:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I suspect that, as with the "list of X video games" type articles, this list will require constant maintainance to keep out the "mundane" bugs. Still, it's on my watchlist now. Marasmusine (talk) 22:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Free software

Can anybody tell my what is NPOV on these removed sourced statements?

Several free sofware bugs went famous, because of their relevancy to resolving of the market dominance of Microsoft Windows.

• Bug #1 in Ubuntu^[1]: Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
• Wine Bug 10000^[2]: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. A lot of software depends on the win32 api, so wine should eventually have to be the most popular implementation of it.

--Kozuch (talk) 18:53, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Those are not software bugs - they are business practice issues. They simply do not belong in this list - whether sourced or not. SteveBaker (talk) 19:08, 15 May 2008 (UTC)