On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope - you'd need to be Tolkien to decipher that lot if you were coming > in cold. > IBM have a *lot* to answer for when they went OCO. For people that never > had access to the fiche, or the PLMs - or the (internals) education > classes - large parts of this might as well be runes. > > Doesn't inspire confidence in the quality of software that may be > forthcoming in future. > And we (customers) are supposed to unquestioningly agree to allow any > and all auth'd code from vendors. mmmmm ... > I know that OCO has long been a sore point with you Systems guys, but this post made me realize what you are up against. I get nightmares when I try to imagine what it would be like to be cut off from my Applications' source code and have to maintain the application using nothing but the 'documentation' to guide me. Yikes!! A recipe for disaster, even if the documentation is good.
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