From: Caleb Herbert <csh@bluehome.net>
To: Chad Larson <BPYZs1fx@mailtoo.hungrycats.org>
Cc: Michael Pagan <michael.pagan@member.fsf.org>,
libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: 7 Reasons to Avoid Open Source?
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:06:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1512399970.3357.12.camel@leela> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171204021255.n5atlesyayeeeuyw@hungrycats.org>
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On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 21:12 -0500, Chad Larson wrote:
> Merely using a VCS is not sufficient. Traceability requires identifying
> individual persons responsible for determining requirements for the
> code, establishing their competence to design and implement the code, and
> demonstrating that the code implements the requirements correctly for each
> product that uses the code. Industrial regulations require traceability
> to determine which individual personally made which implementation
> decisions and which individual tested and verified the results.
Sounds like they want better documentation. Ask Red Hat.
> Traceability is very expensive, in terms of both development cost and
> liberty for the developers. If you think of it as a map to know who to
> sue when things go badly wrong, you're not entirely wrong.
Sounds like they want the benefits of a warranty. Ask Red Hat.
Reminder: Department of Defense will use software without a warranty IF
and ONLY IF it is free. Is some company more important than the DoD?
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Caleb Herbert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-04 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-03 4:45 7 Reasons to Avoid Open Source? Mary-Anne Wolf
2017-12-03 8:05 ` Andrés Muñiz Piniella
2017-12-03 10:44 ` Thomas Harding
2017-12-03 12:32 ` N.Thomas
2017-12-03 15:29 ` C.W. Epema
2017-12-03 19:22 ` Michael Pagan
2017-12-04 2:12 ` Chad Larson
2017-12-04 14:51 ` Thomas Harding
2017-12-04 15:06 ` Caleb Herbert [this message]
2017-12-04 19:02 ` Chad Larson
2017-12-04 23:59 ` Thomas Harding
2017-12-04 16:20 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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