[LEAPSECS] Accountability for failures and broken promises

[Steve Allen]

On 2012 Jul 1, at 11:26, Gerard Ashton wrote:

> If a merchant sells produce sells lettuce by mass and gets caught the

> merchant will be fined, the scale will be seized, or both.


Did Microsoft pay a fine in March after Windows Azure failed because
they had not properly implemented the decree of Emperor Julius?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/01/windows-azure-service-disruption-update.aspx

"The sky is falling!" 
or 
"Bugs happen."

"Leap seconds are hard, let's go shopping." 
or 
"Potential fix for leapsecond caused futex related load spikes"
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1321108   
                                                                             
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