The World Switches to Bugless Software without Notice
As I have been informed in the past, bugs in software are no longer being called "bugs". The new term to describe bugs in the software world is now "issue". Bugs are "issues". Take this to the extreme and you have OpenOffice.org's bug (or more appropriately, their "issue") reporting database. It is widely known that Mozilla's bug reporting database (which I just submitted a bug to this afternoon, in fact) is called "BugZilla". In conforming with this clever play on words, and with the new convention of software being bugless, but having "issues", OpenOffice.org has named their bug/issue database "IssueZilla". Someone please tell me what the world is coming to or I may bash my head through this stupid monitor before which I am seated.

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