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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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"I just became one with my browser software."
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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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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."
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"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."
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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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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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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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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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"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."
People
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."
Mistake
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"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
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
Challenge
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
Machine
"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise."
Work
"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
Software
"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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