A morning in proprietary hell
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| jimf Aug 11, 2006 8:58 AM EDT |
What pops into my head, is the scenario of a doctor, who's car is hijacked by the automated parking machine, as he goes to vote on the Diebold voting machine. He finally returns to his office, only to find that he is locked out of his medical records, and, that one of his patients is in critical condition. Who wants to volunteer to be the doomed patient who's proprietary monitoring system has just discovered a bug? So, civil rights have been circumvented, property has been unnecessarily detained, critical health information is denied, and an important life support device has failed... Not bad for a morning's work. Unlikely? Sure. Impossible? By no means. |
| grouch Aug 11, 2006 10:57 AM EDT |
Our mossst preciousss Eye Pee mussst be protected! It's oursss! Givesss usss our feesss! We wantsss it! |
| jdixon Aug 11, 2006 11:43 AM EDT |
All right grouch, no more all night Lord of the Rings sessions for you. |
| mjjohansen Aug 15, 2006 12:21 AM EDT |
No, that's Steve Ballmer's morning exec briefing. |
| dcparris Aug 15, 2006 7:51 AM EDT |
This is just soooo apropos. |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 15, 2006 8:38 AM EDT |
Talking about proprietry hell, at my company there was a rather expensive external programmer to fix some legacy application. He spent about 4 hours looking for the problem, only to discover that the couldn't get the project to work because a certain library had it's license expired. And what was this piece of high flying technology that we apparently needed to relicense? A bunch of FTP hook for VB6 :-X |
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