Stephen Davies wrote:
> I'm wondering how other LUG Members would tackle the release of software
> with known bugs and would it stop you from developing software in the
> future if you had the spectre of being sued for bugss in your software.
> Remember that the Microsoft EULA makes them NOT Liab
2009/8/8 Stephen Davies :
> James,
> You make some good points however having the known bugs listed in Bugzilla
> is IMHO not going to be enough. In this increasingly ligitious age, I think
> it is imperative for everyone involved in FOSS to have some form of
> Professional Indemnity insurance.
> I
Hi Stephen,
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 04:04:32PM +0100, Stephen Davies wrote:
> When I was working for myself I had Professional Indemnity insurance
> just for this very reason. However if you as an individual try to get
> such insurance it is AFAIK, nigh upon impossible.
I now have PI insurance
James,
You make some good points however having the known bugs listed in
Bugzilla is IMHO not going to be enough. In this increasingly ligitious
age, I think it is imperative for everyone involved in FOSS to have some
form of Professional Indemnity insurance.
If you are a member of a FOSS proje
2009/8/7 Stephen Davies :
> There is an interesting article on infoworld
> http://infoworld.com/t/software-licensing/watch-out-developers-here-come-lawyers-436
>
> about proposals to make developers liable for damages if they are caught
> shipping software with bugs and not telling the user about t
Hi Alan,
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 09:21:36AM +0100, alan c wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > Linus Torvalds recently had something to say about Microsoft
> > bashing:
> >
> > http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html
> > "I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same
> >
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 07:08:23 + (+), Andy Smith wrote:
> Can you elaborate more as to how you manage SSH keys? I've seen a
> couple of ways but never really liked them..
I've been using the ssh-ldap patches with great success for some time
now. Drop people's ssh keys into LDAP (ones f
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 09:01:57 +0100 (+0100), Simon Strange wrote:
> I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm
> interested in using puppet to control it.
Puppet is _wonderful_. As for most automation tools, it's definitely
one of those things where you have to invest time u
Andy Smith wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds recently had something to say about Microsoft
> bashing:
>
> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html
> "I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same
> time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. I believe
> in ope
Hi Keith,
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:06:38PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:01:57 +0100, si...@pseudo-anonymous.com said:
>
> > Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share?
>
> We use it at work to manage just over 100 servers and it works well. Tips
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Tim :
> > I think the morale of this story is, take better care of your passwords and
> > ensure adequate documentation!!
>
> Nahh, so long as you have physical access to the machine, all bets are
> off, and you can get in.
Hello Pavithran,
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:31:57PM +0100, pavithran wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Andy Smith :
>
> > The free software movement has a very vocal minority of people like
> > yourself who are happy to say things like the first paragraph and
> > then argue endlessly about it like the second one
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