Posted by: Kevin Rice
on December 07, 2002 09:48 PM
I love this idea, and will pass it around. I'm wondering if a commercial company will provide support for this package of programs.
I work for a very large bank. We have (unfortunately!) a corporate policy against using ANY open source program. UG! It's based on the premise that we'd have no one to sue if there was a trojan buried in a program we used, thus making our liability unlimited. Yuck.
But, we've pushed thru ActiveState Perl as a commercial product since it's supported and we can sue if it's not as advertised.
My point is that if there's a company that sells the very same CD that is available for free, only they add some kind of certification that the programs are not deliberately harmful, then we could use this stuff corporate-wide.
It's a sick, twisted world in corporate banking. But, I live there and have to abide the monsters therein. Outside views / maps out of this mess are a welcome sight. Bear in mind I'm a programmer, not a Executive Vice President...
-- Kevin <A HREF="http://www.justanyone.com/">justanyone.com, my homepage</a justanyone.com>
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Posted by: Kevin Rice on December 07, 2002 09:48 PMI work for a very large bank. We have (unfortunately!) a corporate policy against using ANY open source program. UG! It's based on the premise that we'd have no one to sue if there was a trojan buried in a program we used, thus making our liability unlimited. Yuck.
But, we've pushed thru ActiveState Perl as a commercial product since it's supported and we can sue if it's not as advertised.
My point is that if there's a company that sells the very same CD that is available for free, only they add some kind of certification that the programs are not deliberately harmful, then we could use this stuff corporate-wide.
It's a sick, twisted world in corporate banking. But, I live there and have to abide the monsters therein. Outside views / maps out of this mess are a welcome sight. Bear in mind I'm a programmer, not a Executive Vice President...
-- Kevin
<A HREF="http://www.justanyone.com/">justanyone.com, my homepage</a justanyone.com>
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