From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 30 23:18:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A084E37B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:18:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.132.230.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.132.230] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16A4Po-0000H0-00; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:18:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3C08846C.3C13C71F@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:19:08 -0800 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Yeck Cc: anthony@freebie.atkielski.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) References: <020c01c178a1$bea114e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <4237.208.216.115.112.1007183317.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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