Management 'Scared' by Open Source 373
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from the following-with-a-firm-push dept.
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.
Gifted Peasant (got) Lawyer (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia KGB scared about not stealing enough code for you.
Scene One: Staff Meeting (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Best Buy (Score:1, Funny)