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by krylon
1047 days ago
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I don't mind if you build a lot of stuff on top of it. But if the vendor more or less withholds useful documentation from their customers on purpose to make them buy their training and certifications or hire their consultants, that's a dark pattern, isn't it? |
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And that’s the business model of a lot of ERPs, especially mid-sized ones. Some of them even have private configuration software, and I even remember one having a private “special compiler” that was just applying something equivalent to a ROT13 to the code and zipping to discourage customization by customers.
But the crazy part is that you don’t even need to resort to this. Unless you’re SAP or something like that, there’s no chance in hell that a developer will want to hitch their career to your shitty ERP, so consulting it is.