[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-08-13, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <mqht27$vs6$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>On 2015-08-12, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-12 22:29:26 +0000, alanfeldman48 at gmail.com said:
>>>> Should I freely load freeware onto production boxes? (Didn't intend the 
>>>> pun, but I'm leaving it in!)
>>>
>>> You probably already have freeware on production boxes.  There's some 
>>> in the base OpenVMS distro.  Some in layered products.
>>>
>>
>>That's vendor supported freeware which is covered by your support
>>contract; the stuff you load yourself isn't.
>
> You only load HP|VSI products on your system(s)?
>

Actually, no, I loaded other stuff as well, but for anything which was
in production use I had to either be confident it's ongoing use would
not be a support issue (ie: DFU) or would be rapidly fixed if an issue
occurred.

That latter example BTW was one[1] of the reasons why I switched to
using Linux based webservers about a decade ago instead of using the
HP version of Apache (which went through a period of having known
issues which were not rapidly fixed). I don't know what the current
security status of HP's version of Apache is.

>
>
>>It varies by site whether that matters or if doing the latter without
>>authorisation will get you fired.
>
> I have products I support that are free of charge; are those not permissable
> in your environment?
>

In the environment I just left they would have probably been acceptable
given that I would have considered them to have come from a trusted
source.

Simon.

[1] I also remember getting frustated around the areas of either poor
performance or lack of functionality when compared to Linux, but after
a decade I no longer remember the details.

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