ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components

Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by sandermvanvliet on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:00PM (#22320917)

When working at one of the other big banks in the Netherlands I had a security officer ask me: “So are we using any open source software?” I had the pleasure of seeing his face go white after I told him pretty much every bit we had from OS to framework, compilers, languages and everything in between was open source software...

It wasn’t a surprise that we couldn’t open source some of our stuff “because security”

So yeah, good to see this sentiment is changing

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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by ci5er on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:25PM (#22322048)

ING has always been a pretty open/modern/progressive business on a number of fronts. I wouldn't take this as typical. (In other words - they aren't Chase and vice-versa, not anything against Chase in this claim)

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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by mdaniel on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:34PM (#22323776)

I was actually really heartbroken the day Capital One bought ING Direct -- I loved that account

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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by skrebbel on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:51AM (#22325820)

That might be what their American retail banking branch wants you to think, but here in NL where they're headquartered, they're Chase.

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Re:ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexib... by Vinnl on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:39AM (#22324213)

It certainly wasn't modern enough to institutionally facilitate releasing open source software though, si it's great that they made progress on that front.

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