Re:British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash
by hdhzy on Saturday May 27, 2017 @01:01PM
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> Airlines should band together and form working group to redevelop the old system in modern open source tech.
It's surprising how quickly one can suggest a solution based on... what exactly?
Imagine a doctor prescribing "this new fantastic medicine" based on "patient is sick" description. While personally I'm all for open source this is not a silver bullet and should be carefully considered.
Joel had an interesting blog post [0] back then about Netscape rewriting their software.
It's surprising how quickly one can suggest a solution based on... what exactly?
Imagine a doctor prescribing "this new fantastic medicine" based on "patient is sick" description. While personally I'm all for open source this is not a silver bullet and should be carefully considered.
Joel had an interesting blog post [0] back then about Netscape rewriting their software.
[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...