Re: Upcoming time boundary events

Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

On 6/4/2025 6:49 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:19:27 +0200, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>

Copy between nodes only allowed for specific accounts, and those
accounts are audited by System Detective. That's an absolutely
superb product.

>
Basic security should be built into the core OS installation, not added as
an afterthought -- and an extra-cost one at that.
>

 
And I'm guessing that all that should also be free?
 
With that attitude, you and I and many others would be broke, homeless, and such ..

Well, there is no law saying that programmers have special rights
to get money.  As with other profesions they get paid because they
to things useful to others.

More to the point: security is now basic OS function.  Trying to
add it in external products is likely to fail, that is produce
something less secure.  Even if external product is good,
presence of unsecured systems leads to loss for everybody.
Also, it does not make sense when a lot of programmers
re-invent (and code again) the same thing.

In other word, having solid foundation allows more interesting
(and more useful) add on products.  It is important that
functionality that _you_ use is included (without extra charge)
in base system, otherwise that may limit adaption of _your_
product (even if people are happy to pay extra for dependencies
(not all are), dependencies are extra trouble which must be
resolved before your product can work).

So, for good earnings select your market.  Do not go into
delivering comodities unless you are happy with comodity pricing
(which for software may be 0).

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