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Originally Posted by Danr55
Rob, approach from a different flank. Make them think it's their idea.
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Yeah, I can't do that... I've tried in the past, and it just leaves me feeling "slimy"... I have an ethical conundrum with allowing the credit for accomplishment to be afforded to those whose sole contribution to the effort was that they "Ask the tough (aka dumb) questions". It's a character flaw on my part, I'm sure.
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Originally Posted by nniets
Everyone needs a place to vent. Corporations (and banks especially) using open source software are just asking for trouble. ("But it's practically free!")
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Don't get me started again, Stein...
To be fair, all this stuff is 3rd tier, non-core, internal use software (mostly workflow and queue management stuff)- really dry, uninteresting, boring... Using open source for this stuff wasn't necessarily wrong, they just didn't keep up with the house-keeping.
It's like these guys never changed their anti-freeze, and when the freeze plugs rusted out and started leaking, all they could tell me was "We don't know why they're leaking; The engine had brand new freeze plugs when we installed it in the car, 300,000 miles ago"....
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