What? You make a buggy software product someone finds a way to exploit automatically and when your customers come calling asking for help to repair their systems, suddenly, you are not to be blamed? Not even a little? How so?

Let's move the example from software to aerospace.

Someone builds planes that, when an engine inhales a bird, explode, killing all passengers and crew. They do not know the problem exists and did as little testing as required by regulations. Knowing the problem, a kid decides to release pigeons in the path of the plane, creating a quite spectacular accident. Who will you blame? Just the kid, just the manufacturer or both?

Until executive bonuses get cut, you will see no improvement over there. Unfortunately, lots of bonuses get calculated on limited scopes and don't reflect the complete lifetime of a product. This way, it's easy to close sales, pocket huge bonuses right now, get promoted, and to let the support cost bomb explode in the hands of your successor while you capitalize on your success and head up the corporate ladder.

If you look them closely, big corporations are rarely more intelligent than a sponge or a coral reef.