• CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    What was your Boss’ feedback? Why didn’t he/she like your recommendation? I’m going to guess a major constraint was too many sources for software.

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      10 hours ago

      Basically, if they went with IBM and it broke, its IBM’s fault

      If they went open source and it broke, its our fault for picking it.

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        4 hours ago

        I mean, they are probably running RedHat or Debian on their servers anyway, so if it’s reliable enough for them, then it’s reliable enough for clients.

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        7 hours ago

        Liability for one’s product actually means something to IBM/Microsoft/etc. instead of some guy on github.