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On a side note: A point that many a company ignores when they demand some assurance so their software vendor a) can be held liable b) will hand over the source
by YouKnowBetter 9y ago
On a side note: A point that many a company ignores when they demand some assurance so their software vendor a) can be held liable b) will hand over the source in case of drama, is to give the source code in Escrow.
The number one error these companies make is to think that source code without a reproducible build environment means anything at all.
Reproducibility is not easy. I applaud Debian (and in the older days TrueCrypt) for giving this more exposure.
- bluGill 9y agoSomeplace my company has a closet with a computer containing Windows XP (not sure which service pack, but not the latest), and and old version of visual studio, just in case we need to fix a bug. I know we still have it because the project got resurrected recently and we had to clone the harddrive a few times because nobody could find a copy of that version of visual studio that can be installed. (Microsoft dropped support for whatever version of WinCE with no upgrade path)
- monocasa 9y agoWe have a bunch of VMs cloned from ancient machines for the same reason.