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RE: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?

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Subject: RE: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?
From: "Lawrence W. Smith" <lws@juiceco.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:45:10 +0100
Sender: owner-ports@openbsd.org
> "..That's not the only of Dan's documents which is out of date, I have
> more than once asked Dan to update
> http://cr.yp.to/maildisasters/postfix.html, but he never replied. All
> of Dan's rightful sorrows about Postfix security have been addressed
> 1998-12-25, so Dan has not updated the document for more than 30
> months. Can Dan's warnings about third-party software be taken
> seriously? "Decide for yourself."..."

I think we can all garner a great deal from the difference in reaction
between Wietse in response to Theo approaching him over his licences
and that of Darren / Dan.

Its also very interesting to note that Wietse reacted in much the same
way as the Open team do to the discovery of bugs minor or major.

I'm sure I will be corrected if I'm wrong, but far from being churlish
and protective, both seem to revel in finding bugs, coding and fixing
problems not having petty battles....

Just as us SA types / users enjoy finding new ways to abuse their handiwork.

So a BIG thank you to the dev team just for doing what they do :)
 
Lawrence

PS the London *BSD users meet is still on for tomorrow polish up your
pewter pots!!!

Directions here for any who need them...
http://www.juiceco.com/html/lonbug.html

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