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Re: Damage control

Comment from Alexandre Bonvin on April 4, 2012 11:07:44 PM CEST #

"But of course the reason for the original post is not the bug itself, but the apparent paranoia of the resource owners. Well, they have very good reasons to be paranoid. Even bank cards have limited validity period and need to be renewed. National passports have limited validity periods. Your car's technical inspection certificate needs to be renewed. And no bank or government or a vehicle registration authority sends you e-mail reminders. This is something you as the document owner must check yourself."

...hmmm...

My bank send me automatically a new card when the old one expires... They don't first close my account. And my passport is valid for 5 years... I even get one month in advance a notice that it will expire... This does not mean there are no problems: for example internet banking is down from time to time...

So not sure I can fully agree with this comment. Of course I am paying for all those services and so far grid usage is pretty much free. They are talks of changing that in the future, which might make the user a paying customer... and the saying is: the customer is king!

There will always be a bug somewhere (I tend to call it "undocumented feature"). This one was nasty, but proper action followed quickly and the damage was limited. Of course physics people have been born with grid and it feels natural. We are trying to attract a new community to it and it takes quite some effort to convince people.

Cheers

Alexandre

PS: And chocolate is of course always good!

Re: Damage control

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