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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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"There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it."
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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."
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"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
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"I just became one with my browser software."
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"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."
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"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock."
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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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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."
Life
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."
Time
"Sure, but competition is good for the user."
Competition
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
Running
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
Acceptance
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
Machine
"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."
Work
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
Mistake
"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."
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