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Management 'Scared' by Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the following-with-a-firm-push dept.

A discussion panel at EclipseCon exposed how managers are freaking out over open source. Apparently a disconnect exists between managers who set corporate open source policies and developers supposed to follow them, but who end up covering their tracks to make it seem like they are not using open source. Developers, though, end up using open source because of its ubiquity and not using it 'puts them at a competitive disadvantage because their competitors are.' And the Lawyers are in a panic.

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  1. Gifted Peasant (got) Lawyer by AHuxley · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Capitalist West management scared about your lawyer exposing code theft.
    In Soviet Russia KGB scared about not stealing enough code for you.

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  2. Scene One: Staff Meeting by natrius · · Score: 2, Funny

    Manager: So you're telling me that someone already wrote code that performs a task we need done in our software, and they're letting anyone use it for free?
    Coder #1: Yeah, I think it's cool that—
    Manager: AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
    [Manager faints.]
    Coder #2: That's the last project on SourceForge that we hadn't used yet. How are we going to get out of work tomorrow?
    Coder #1: Hmm... Wanna go grab a beer and start yet another Python web framework?
    Coder #2: You're a genius.

  3. Re:Best Buy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe when the auditors showed up, they were shown Best Buy's "other" server that had license metering software.