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01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This is an admirable project, and I one I support. However, it’s important to note that ‘’‘the issue with open source in an enterprise environment, is that there is no one to blame when things, inevitably, break or are misconfigured. The blame falls on only you, not a vendor.’‘’

Literally the reason my former VP of IT gave me that the CEO gave him.

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fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Commercial support exists for opensource too so its just a misunderstanding of it.

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- 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract, which gives the corpo someone to blame.
  
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  - fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That is a value as well. But also support from people already actively contributing to the project can be very helpful as well
    
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    01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Very true. And I am not pretending it’s not. I was mostly venting my experience (and frustration) regarding enterprise environments.
    
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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Because clearly blaming corporation for the ongoing climate apocalypse is going super well!

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- 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I… don’t understand what you’re on about. How does the climate crisis have anything to do with my observation about FOSS enterprise support?
  
  The corpos aren’t looking to be blamed. They’re looking for someone to blame.
  
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Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Remove open source from any company stack and they’ll go back to using abacus.

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- 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Using a proprietary solution that has FOSS components isn’t the same as a FOSS solution. Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract (or a proprietary solution that uses FOSS components), which gives the corpo someone to blame.
  
  Also, wasn’t the abacus, technically, open source? So, they couldn’t use that, either.
  
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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You’re CEO and VP of IT are idiots.

Of course you can have open source in an enterprise environment and have someone to blame. You hire a company to install the open source software and maintain it.

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- 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  **former. But yes. One of the reasons I left.
  
  As was pointed out earlier, commercial enterprise support for FOSS is usually in the form of a vendor support contract, which gives the corpo someone to blame.
  
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