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"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."
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"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
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