Re: What is FREE?
The work isn't done by library devs at all. There isn't even a proper single standard for installing apps on Windows.
Each app has to be checked for suitability for delivering to a secured, locked-down desktop via SCCM.
It then has to be tested to ensure that it doesn't mess things up for the 15k or so users on that platform. Of which there are several flavours due to differences in organisation and departments.
It also has to be reviewed for security and privacy - how many times have we now seen where even a seemingly benign minor version "update" to an open source application has introduced insecurities and even malware or at least adware.
People need to stop applying consumer grade levels of "reasonable" to enterprise systems.
There is a VERY good reason that NHS England didn't fall foul of Wannacry or indeed that it has NEVER had a malware outbreak.
As I say, I agreed that the price seems excessive. But the price HAS to be more than zero.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
