I voted you up. You could have written more instead of linking to an excerpt of yours. But after reading it with the great examples of bugged contracts you gave I must say: thank you. I especially love the GovernMental example (https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4ghzhv/government...). Small bug but the involved ether will stay in nirvana forever.

I only knew about the failed DAO up to now. All those smaller failed contracts fit perfectly in the image the DAO left. I mean I love the idea of ethernet and its contracts but I see no solution to the inherent software bug problem. You can't do a hard fork for every bug.