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Comment author: gwern 01 August 2011 10:16:02PM 0 points [-]

And yes, we would be willing spend some extra money if a software manufacturer can back up these claims.

But how would one back up these claims? The difficulty of verification is one reason software markets sometime resembles lemon markets.