does anyone remember the days when a customer bought a program for his/her computer and never had to pay another penny?
If you write the program correctly the first time, there is no need for endless updates.
as for viruses, worms, adware, malware simple solution: any computer geek caught writing such a program spends the rest of his/her life in the worst prison we can find.
I prefer the drawing and quartering approach to such punishment. . . then dicing and running them through a meat grinder. Then feed what's left to the hogs. Make sure they NEVER come back!
...prison, 30 feet underwater, all life support controlled by a web app, no firewalls.....
(do I sound ticked-off & vindictive toward the writers of malware?)
Identity thieves to be assigned as the prison admin & maintenance staff....on site...
“If you write the program correctly the first time, there is no need for endless updates.”
That is both true and false. While I have seen software that I have written for windows 3.1 still chugging along just fine on windows 7 drawing beautiful color graphs and tables on modern printers, I have had to deal with the newest windows version totally breaking legacy apps through no fault of the code as they decided to change api functions, dlls, totally drop objects, and even drop technology. I still have a tremendous amount of legacy apps and activex in use scattered all over the world, and I am terrified to get the butchers bill of how many things are going to suddenly stop working when windows 10 starts getting loaded. You can’t just fix 30 years of programs in 20 countries overnight