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"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."
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"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."
"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."
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
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"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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."
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