Proprietary Software Is Often Malware

Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by ldarby on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:18PM (#26008998)

> Have you ever seen a payer demand a change from a proprietary vendor and get it?

This happens constantly, but in private. Usually the conversation goes like this:

    customer: opens support ticket, asking how to do some task X
    vendor: sorry, that needs a feature added to the product
    customer: fine, we'll switch to $other_vendor
    vendor: oh look at that, our engineering department scheduled the feature for next release.

Granted though that when dealing with vendors as large as Microsoft that's not going to happen.

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Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by shadowgovt on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:46AM (#26015526)

At least in the cloud space, the conversation is often more like "We would use you, but X and Y features are business-critical and you do not support them."

They're called "table-stakes features."

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