>>I have read quite a few books lately containing errors where a homophone (note homonym) was used. It gets on my nerves when I am reading. I figured it was some automated spelling system that did that and not the author. How would it have made it by the editors?
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>They just wanted to make a big savings, so they fired the old human proofreaders and turned to the new, more profitable kind of proofreaders, called customers.

I have worked for software companies that develop that way. It usually resulted in generating and delivering releases once a month (or less). Also, the developers are more stressed, the customer service area was large in people. And the customers were tick off all the time. (Sounds like a fun place to work.)

It was these types of companies that made me a firm beleiver in QA and test teams. (Currently, half the positions I have had have been as a SDET tester.)