 the company is
inappropriately steering things toward its own goals.</p><div class="sect2" title="Quality Assurance (i.e., Professional Testing)"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="subsidize-qa"/>Quality Assurance (i.e., Professional Testing)</h2></div></div></div><p>In proprietary software development, it is normal to have teams
of people dedicated solely to quality assurance: bug hunting,
performance and scalability testing, interface and documentation
checking, etc.  As a rule, th