Just like in In any large enterprise, my
> business colleagues *always* determine which bugs get fixed.
> They might ask my opinion, they might consider the
> consequences of not fixing the one that I think is the most
> critical, but at the end of the day they control the budget
That's one reason I enjoy working for myself. I once spent a year patching
bugs in a rotten piece of software that I could have rewritten in six weeks,
if someone had had a budget for it...
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/