[sdiy] ot: is it true that Waldorf crashed?

[Jeffrey D. McEachin]

At 05:05 PM 2/19/2004 -0800, James Patchell wrote:

>And what is amazing is almost every company I have worked for has basically 
>budgeted zip for the software associated with a project...they seem to 
>think, time and again, that since there are no material costs, software 
>must be free.  On every project I have worked on that needed software, 
>software has probably ended up being about 75% of the budget.

Yeah, nothing more irritating than a hardware guy who doesn't understand that the software feature he thinks is "free" is will result in either sleepless nights or a schedule slip.  :P

JDM