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Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) [video] by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:39AM (#27568521)
> Even if you have them, what good does a stack trace do if you don't also have the source to fix it?

It makes patching the binary yourself a heck of a lot easier. As is often the case with legacy enterprise software from a vendor now long-gone…

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Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) [video] by junon on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:41AM (#27568531)
Do you want full open source? Or allow enterprise software? pick one.
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Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) [video] by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:02PM (#27573394)
How are those mutually exclusive?

Enterprise software ends up as something invariably so specific to the company using it that it doesn’t matter if it’s open-source or not - absolutely no-one could extract any value from it than the original company and whatever kafkaesque internal processes lead to its development.

Anything more general-purpose is already commodity - ERP being the prime example.

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