Vitaliy wrote:
> I understand "quality" to mean "conformance to requirements".

I guess this is the difference.  To me "conformance to the requirements"
means "good enough", which is one possible level of quality.  Quality is
about a whole range of not only meeting requirements (or not) but also about
above and beyond.  I think people will generally perceive a item to be of
higher quality when it doesn't fail when they abuse it out of spec a bit.
You can often charge more for a item that has perceived higher quality
compared to one that doesn't, even if both perform correctly just to the
specs.


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