Re: RPG III - Object to Source DE-Compiler

One programmer told me about where he had worked before in Argentina,
where another one took months' of his work (the source), saved it to
tape, deleted it from the system, and came tape in hand to the manager,
and said something like, >This is my intellectual property, you can have
it for x,,xxx.

The manager told him to get lost. He had suspected something, and had
been saving everything separately.

Sheesh! I don't know what happened to him, but my friend told me the guy
was not able to get a job again in Argentina. What an idiot!

- Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@attbi.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 2:17 AM
Subject: RE: RPG III - Object to Source DE-Compiler


| I saw an S/36 contractor escorted out the door of General Mills,
because he
| had objects with different names than source members, spread all over
the
| place, with no external documentation (i.e., it was all in his head).
Job
| security? Not this time.
|
| At 07:38 AM 10/3/02 -0400, you wrote:
| >Thanks Joel -
| >
| >I don't think they intentionally delete the source: they just remove
their
| >personal library and everything in it...not realizing they have
production
| >objects operating from their personalized source files. Where I do
get bent
| >is them not copying the tested object into the live source file for
| >re-compilation into production. SO MANY people, who have been around
for SO
| >MANY years, totally blind to the importance of change
management...this
| >particular problem is just a very good example of that.
|
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