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When working at one of the other big banks in the Netherlands I had a security officer ask me: “So are we using any open source software?” I had the pleasure of
by sandermvanvliet 7y ago
When working at one of the other big banks in the Netherlands I had a security officer ask me: “So are we using any open source software?”
I had the pleasure of seeing his face go white after I told him pretty much every bit we had from OS to framework, compilers, languages and everything in between was open source software...
It wasn’t a surprise that we couldn’t open source some of our stuff “because security”
So yeah, good to see this sentiment is changing
- ci5er 7y agoING has always been a pretty open/modern/progressive business on a number of fronts. I wouldn't take this as typical. (In other words - they aren't Chase and vice-versa, not anything against Chase in this claim)
- mdaniel 7y agoI was actually really heartbroken the day Capital One bought ING Direct -- I loved that account
- Vinnl 7y agoIt certainly wasn't modern enough to institutionally facilitate releasing open source software though, si it's great that they made progress on that front.
- skrebbel 7y agoThat might be what their American retail banking branch wants you to think, but here in NL where they're headquartered, they're Chase.