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  3. April 2002

RE: Source code (was: The Wilkes-Barre fiasco...)

>It's widely believed to be a poor business
>decision because the business making that
>decision can not hold the code for ransom
>or charge outrageous fees for trivial upgrades
>or have a third party take a peek at what a
>piece of cra* the system might actually be.

Working for a vendor, I can't say too much publicly (violates my employment
agreement.)  I'll just say that not all software vendors are dirtbags, and
that releasing Synon generated source code would not be helpful to our
customers.  As far as I know, we've never turned down a request to see the
code and the model.
  --buck

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