[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:08:21 UTC+1, Jan-Erik Söderholm  wrote:
> Den 2018-05-23 kl. 16:40, skrev seasoned_geek:
> 
> > The financial and criminal penalties are being raised world wide even
> > now. The GDPR is just the beginning.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
> > 
> 
> GDPR is about how and why companies collect/store/process personal data.
> 
> GDPR has absolutelly nothing to do with TCP/IP as such.
> 
> Your posts just gets more and more weird. Or entertaining...


GDPR penalties, if enforced effectively, might provide 
a focus on system robustness that appears to have been 
lacking in much software marketing and system development
in recent years (not specifically on VMS).

One reason for that is that seasoned_geek's quoted 
20million Euro penalty isn't correct - that would be
peanuts in corporate business terms anyway. 

The actual maximum GDPR penalty is 
"Up to €20 million, or 4% annual global turnover – whichever 
is higher." (lots of places to look it up).

4% of annual global turnover might even give Facebook,
Google, and friends something to think about, never mind 
the affected subsidiaries of outfits like Equifax, and many 
many others.

Interesting times ahead.