Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000)
by Spooky23 on Sunday November 27, 2016 @10:19PM
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Not only that, but vendors would freeze those tools in time.
I worked for an employer who banned "freeware" tools so you were stuck with ancient, broken software on Solaris and other systems.
Post 9-11, we had to secure all of the things, including moving away from rsh and telnet. SSH was problematic due to the freeware thing -- no worry... we were able to buy "IBM SSH" for $900 per processor value unit. (IBM SSH was an out of date OpenSSH where someone did a find and replace substituting Open with IBM)
I worked for an employer who banned "freeware" tools so you were stuck with ancient, broken software on Solaris and other systems.
Post 9-11, we had to secure all of the things, including moving away from rsh and telnet. SSH was problematic due to the freeware thing -- no worry... we were able to buy "IBM SSH" for $900 per processor value unit. (IBM SSH was an out of date OpenSSH where someone did a find and replace substituting Open with IBM)