[Gllug] How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies) (fwd)

[Iain Nicholson]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Richard Cohen wrote:

> You *know* you want to reply to this...
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:30:34 +0100
> From: Sean Burlington <sean at uncertainty.org.uk>
> Reply-To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies)
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:27:10PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > > More so  - Microsoft's licence terms states that they are not
> > > responsible for any damage caused by bugs in the software.
> >
> > Show me any common licence that _doesn't_ have those terms - the GPL does,
> > BSD does, Perl's does, Apache's does, pretty much all freeware, shareware,
> > nagware and payware does.
> >
>
> have you seen the license Sun put out with Java (or maybe just example code)
>
> it specifically states that you shouldn't use it for running a nuclear power
> plant !
>
>
> --
>
> Sean
>
Well, Sean, I hate to disappoint you, but here in the UK where each
Nuclear Licensed Site is responsible for writing its own Safety Case (I
should know, I used to help write the one for Bradwell Powerstation in
Essex) that doesn't stop them.

Sizewell B (Britain's only commercial PWR) is run by a network of SPARC
boxen running Solaris :-) Rumour has it that when there is a reactor trip
the "alarm" is a rendition of Flight of the Valkyries (one of my friends
and erstwhile colleagues worked there).


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