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Yes, but the "we have billions of years to get this right" model generally doesn't apply to software dev. ;)

Unless you're coding Duke Nukem Forever. ;)

That would require they get it right.

With a 99.9999% failure rate.

Why do you think Linux isn't the 0.0001% survived form?

Because I would hope they didn't follow the random mutation and non-random survival method of evolution.

this would be "years and years of testing on thousands of machines," no?