[191931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Mon Oct 3 22:06:20 2016
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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 19:06:09 -0700
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> =
wrote:
>=20
> It's the closed software that is fscking everything up right now. A =
little sunshine on the code base will go a long way towards those people =
not losing their Ferrari's after all.
Or coming from a more legalistic view, if they lock things down that =
hard, they cannot possibly blame anyone else for having "rooted" the =
gear, therefore no passing the buck. They would have to admit that it =
was their - and only their - code that was responsible for inflicting =
the damages.
I've been in the tech biz for 30+ years, and have worked for a wide =
range of organizations over that time. The only common denominator =
across them all (small, large, and everything between - commercial and =
not) is that rapid response high level organizational change ONLY happen =
when the executives see the possibility of an imminent, significant, =
personal loss. That might be monetary loss, or loss of reputation. But =
it must be personally hurtful. When the reaper appears on the horizon, =
it's amazing how quickly they see the path to redemption.
The sooner we all admit this is not a *technical* problem, the sooner we =
will eradicate it.
--lyndon
