Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:19:08 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mark Yeck <y3k@gti.net> Cc: anthony@freebie.atkielski.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <3C08846C.3C13C71F@mindspring.com> References: <020c01c178a1$bea114e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <4237.208.216.115.112.1007183317.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu>
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Mark Yeck wrote: > > I disagree. All else being equal, a purpose-built system is always > > superior to a generalized system. Wrong. > This is not always true. A popular topic in engineering circles these days > is Design Reuse. There are many advantages to modify a proven system to meet > the requirements of a similar task, or using proven elements of an existing > system in a new system, over designing a purpose built system completely > from scratch. Cool. Uh, of course this will let the blackhats obtain "exploit reuse"... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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