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Subject: People for the Ethical Treatment of Software

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Date Posted: 21:29:29 12/27/01 Thu

SEVEN SOFTWARE COMPANIES ADDED TO "WATCH LIST"

New York, NJ, Dec. 8 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of
Software (PETS) 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, spokesperson for PETS. "Alternative methods of
testing these products are available."

According to PETS, these companies force software to undergo
lengthly 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
industry giant Microsoft Corp. as a company that has become
extremely successful without resorting to software testing.

PETS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the
lives of software programs and promoting alternatives to
software testing.

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