It very much depends on what software you are talking about. There was software from IBM with ghastly support. There was chargeable software from CA with appalling packaging. There was free software with excellent support. Even within a single developer it can vary widely from program to program.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Clark Morris [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: More of LOG4J On Tuesday 18/01/2022 at 12:42 pm, Kirk Wolf wrote: > Since I would guess that a majority of ibm-mainers would agree that > open source is confusing and dangerous, here's a question: As someone who installed and modified JES2 exits from the CBT tape, modified HASP with British Rail and other contributions from the Michigan mods tapes and used another mods tape for an IEBCOPY replacement as well as being someone who contributed back to the Michigan Mods 1979 tape, the JES3 tape and the CBTTAPE, I would not call open source confusing and dangerous. Anything that is put on a system has to be maintained either in house or by some trusted party be it a vendor or an open source project. The user has to understand the supplier's notification and update process and be able to use it in their environment. There have been both open source fiascos and vendor related fiascos. Clark Morris > > > > Let's say that an organization wanted to prohibit open source. How > would you go about it? > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1NqXtEGbELDj8GTt1o7CjZSi9c6HQpwwh3HDzNgz4ccaqyvMVE7GOxk0HV52bhVq-zmiaO67GGcctOV63GXkfa0cV7lmMYb4l8gJiVt4SdJnL2Q0M8nzomnJ1Us9ybORF4tmaegym4PQ5uQ2TlykRITm7_1mljjrwyJIv6Fz7vlSAXTC5idmBUe6T5BySSQ2Lyq8SP1H1GH4j4BSsRzZSEuEQuAvDVO_I7qh9JzlnRgX3yYvgXdvON7AKrzTfumSq_fG0Gl-Q1WI2scr9foQOa8xKL21MJqPRBL2Zcpn5HgvAQoXfpqkEBaN1TBQ4rvrHkJS0iinyPjzE6Bh03oPTnnuTiKlTvy5Enta0sQokuL0hFJvoUIzOoV7T9l84fEiZdxGgeKrtMD3ocyZ1_1eIyh0uhLigxVSAQbuKP8QwaTED7l0ZgghO_1MALPOirKyg/http%3A%2F%2Fdovetail.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
