Ethical Treatment of Software

                                    

Rally for Ethical Treatment of Software!! 




New York, NJ, August 27 --  People for the Ethical Treatment of Software
announced today that " seven " more software companies have been added to
the group's "watch list" of companies that regularly practice software testing.

"There is no need for software to be mistreated in this way so that companies
like these can market new products," said Ken Granola, spokesman for PETS.
"Alternative methods of testing these products are available."  According to
PETS, these companies force software to undergo lengthy and arduous tests,
often without rest for hours... or days at a time.  Employees are assigned to
"break" the software by any means necessary, and inside sources report that
they often joke about "torturing" the software.

"It's no joke," said Granola. "Innocent programs, from the day they are compiled,
are cooped up in tiny rooms and  'crashed' for  hours on end. They spend their
whole lives on dirty, ill-maintained computers, and are unceremoniously deleted
when they're not needed anymore."

Granola said the software is kept in unsanitary conditions and is infested with 
bugs.

"We know alternatives to this horror exist,"   he said citing giant Microsoft
Corp. as a company that has become extremely successful without resorting 
to any form of software testing. PETS is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to improving the lives of software programs and promoting alternatives to 
software testing.