Hi Hans
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I worked in software development for over 40 years for both UK and US companies, and I found that the big difference between the UK and the USA was "software engineering" vs "application development". In the US, there was a need to continuously & publicley demonstrate "progress" on a regular basis, so US teams were required to release as often as possible (even if they knew there were flaws), so as to demonstrate that they were making progress, whereas UK teams in UK companies were required to release stuff that worked as per specifications/requirements - and it is clearly economically superior that the US approach has won, but as a customer of "tech" am I happy?.
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I personally found the "release it early but never mind the flaws, but we'll fix it afterwards" approach very un-professional, and in fact got fired from a US firm because I refused to compromise my professional standards - in the US "there was never enough time to do it right first time, but always enough time to put it right afterwards (at the customer's expense of course)" - time to market even if it was only just good-enough trumped delivering what was promised/contracted (and specified).
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So, Hans, may I exhort you to just keep doing what you do, and do so very well. QRPLabs (you) deliver quality stuff which we can trust and rely upon, there is no need for us to carefully scrutinise the fine-print, because what you deliver is what you say, as we used to say "my word is my bond", "no ifs, no buts", "marketing does not TRUMP reality".
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May the Force be with you always
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Peter - GM8JCF
