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COTS software in critical systems: The case for Freely Licensed Open Source Software - Story
December 09, 2010
COTS software helps reduce development costs for large, long-lived systems, but COTS does not mean proprietary. Freely Licensed Open Source Software (FLOSS) brings COTS benefits but without the restrictions and vendor tie-in typical of proprietary products.
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Software warranties -- A new era? - Story
September 23, 2009
When anyone buys a television, a car, or even a ballpoint pen, the purchaser expects it to work properly. This assumption is backed by the legal machinery of warranties and consumer protection legislation. So software carries the same protection, right? Wrong! Historically, commercial software products have been sold with absolutely no claims that they are fit for purpose or free of vulnerabilities. But that might be changing, thanks to several factors.
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Ada matters! - Story
May 09, 2008
The computing industry is rather peculiar: If a technology is not the latest and greatest, people think it has vanished entirely. You can, for example, often meet otherwise knowledgeable people who think that mainframes and COBOL have completely disappeared.
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