[Gllug] just preaching to the converted !

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:40 +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> On 22/10/05, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Some good points here and I'll recount a meeting I went to this week. I
> > don't work in IT so this was almost by chance - but I attended a meeting
> > with some CIOs from some very big corporates as well as key people from
> > some big suppliers.
> >
> > It was all Chatham House terms so I cannot say who said what, but
> > basically the hostility to OSS (nobody dared used the term free
> > software) was intense. One CIO of a very big firm said OSS "worried" him
> > because he didn't feel he had anybody to hold to account for it and
> > other basically dismissed it all as small beer and the plaything of
> > techies
> 
> The thing there is that if you accept the Microsoft EULA then you also
> don't have anyone to hold to account for failings in software. You
> know *who* to blame but try and hold them to account and you'll soon
> find you left your rights at the door when you hit "I accept"
> 

I don't disagree. The thing was this was how they saw OSS - a toy.
(Presumably they pay somebody to install and patch their MS software but
don't feel they can do the same with OSS).



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