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

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I work for a software vendor now and I've worked for them in the
past. Only one has ever failed, and it's the same one that also
failed to control source code adequately. Sales dwindled to
essentially zero and it was discovered far too late to do
anything that the basic package (for medical billing) was already
installed at prospect sites. None of the prospects had any reason
to suspect there was anything wrong.

Any software house that does not keep source under control is
risking the jobs of its employees not to mention assets of
investors.

Sheesh, and I believe in open source too. Go figure.

Tom Liotta

On Fri, 26 April 2002, Buck Calabro wrote

> >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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Tom Liotta
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