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Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs
(idiallo.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
1-money 2-incompetence 3-the senior prgrammer left somewhere and is uncontactable, or was sacked by a powertripping manager with the IQ of a cinder block and no one can work out what the hell they wrote.
If you work at an old enough company the answer is usually 4, whoever wrote the code is long since dead and no one these days knows anything about COBOL.
Until about 4 years ago we still had a dot matrix printer.