Go Debian! It installs from source. On May 10, 2014 2:44 PM, "Duffy Nightingale" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with John Gilmore. Once the paranoia starts, it never ends. > Having an updated copy of source or a copy that matches the version in use > at your site with compiling/assembly instructions and some basic > architecture sure beats the heck out of nothing. > > Big companies, such as IBM, typically drop support and many sites end up > with nothing.... > > Duffy Nightingale > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 7:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Vendor Source Code > > Radoslaw Skorupka is right to emphasize that an escrow agreement is not a > panacea. > > Such an agreement may be all but useless, but an able lawyer who > understands the software-development process can write one that is useful > in extremis. > > Moreover, the availability of such agreements sometimes makes it possible > for initially small, startup ISVs to sell their new products to > organizations that would otherwise be wary of buying them. > > They can certainly be problematic; but it is possible, even easy, to make > long lists of potential inadequacies for just about any undertaking. > (There are even some boilerplate lists of this sort > available.) > > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
