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My favorite anecdote from working in health care was a VP asking if we could use—-trust OpenSSL, because it wasn’t version 1.0, and it was 0.9.8, and instead sh
by sargun 6y ago
My favorite anecdote from working in health care was a VP asking if we could use—-trust OpenSSL, because it wasn’t version 1.0, and it was 0.9.8, and instead should we license an encryption product.
- viraptor 6y agoWas it a VP of a tech department? If not, it's a very valid question. Either way, it sounds like a good approach to ask the question to someone else who's closer to practical implementation.
- alpaca128 6y agoEspecially considering some programs only get a minor version increment about once a year(FreeCad 0.18) while projects like Firefox or OpenSuse skipped tens of major version numbers within a short period.
- sargun 6y agoHe was our CIO. This was ~2011. Effectively, he was getting steak dinners from vendors, and using that to make decisions. These questions were either from ignorance or worse, malice, to force us to vendors. This (public) medical company went out of business roughly a year after.