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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:12:24 -0600
From: Tim <tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com>
To: Stuart Krivis <ipswitch@apk.net>
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That was mostly tongue-in-cheek.  I am not going to get into an
argument about what constitutes brilliant software.  If *you* think
any piece of software is brilliant, good for you.  I shall quote you:

  <shrug> Use what works well for you and move on to the next task.

Tim

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:41:14AM -0500, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:48:44 -0600, Tim <tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:45:47PM -0500, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> >> <shrug> Use what works well for you and move on to the next task.
> >
> >That's what 99% of us do.  The other 1% writes brilliant software or
> >bitches about other people doing it.  ;-)
> 
> Brilliant software?  Re-inventing the wheel just for the sake of
> re-inventing is not brilliant. Requiring the world to conform to your
> ideas is not brilliant. 
> 
> Just as an example, tcp wrappers is brilliant software. It does
> exactly what is needed and it also plugs right in to the way you were
> already doing things. Ssh was/is also brilliant software. Ditto for
> the shadow password suite. 

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