One of the reasons I like and support the use of open source software is that you can avoid most of the drama that comes from relying on 3rd party vendors. By this I mean.. you must pay exorbitant sums for ongoing maintenance, you are locked into their product upgrade treadmill, you have little say [...]
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Don’t be a Slave to Your Vendors
April 12, 2011
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The world is held together by duct tape
September 24, 2010
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CIA used ‘illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones’ Netezza illegally and hastily reverse-engineered IISi’s code (targeting software) to deliver a version that produced locations inaccurate by up to 13 metres. Despite knowing about the miscalculations, the CIA accepted the software, court submissions indicate. I have a theory… or perhaps this should be another of [...]
