I detect a drift from Dilbert into the realm of Bat Man. If some poor soul chops off his own foot with an ax, we would not accuse him of inventing a new self-amputation tool. It's an unfortunate but unintended consequence of using an old tool improperly. Maybe we could find a cadre of available OSOs in the rear of the Bat Cave, but in practice we might find this effort a hard sell to the CFO. Especially because it runs counter to established corporate wisdom.
The whole point of share-ware is to achieve maximum flexibility at least cost. A new bureaucracy is not likely to garner many champions. OTOH I could eagerly invest in whatever industry manufactures red tape. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 4:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Corporate lawsuit exposure Was: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals) Joel C. Ewing wrote: > Unfortunately in a large corporate environment you may have a large > number of users with access to workstations who are not sophisticated > enough to understand software licensing distinctions. My experience in Fortune 100 Land is that these policies readily transmute themselves into tools for maintaining the status quo and shielding the incompetent rather than protecting the institution or the customers. My suggestion is that institutions create trained cadres of Open Source Officers (OSO, The Bear) and have one in each technical dep't. empowere to approve/disapprovite in a timely fashion all requests to install specific open source packages. If the glasshouse doesn't get a shovel handy, it's going to suffocate under its own mountain of bullfeathers. When I was younger and studying Roman history, I could understand the Roman Republic and the early Empire, but found the Byzantine Era impenetrable. At this point in my life, I understand the Byzantine Era much better than I did before! -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
