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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:20:54 +0200
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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	Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral
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Terry Lambert said on Jul 10, 2001 at 09:56:58:
> 
> Also, you should be aware that in commercial deployment,
> having a compiler on board the system is often considered
> a bad thing, as it permits entre to exploiters bringing
> their own programs onto the system.

I've seen people disable compilers before, but I haven't understood
how it helps.  You can compile elsewhere and bring the binary onto the
system, can't you?  Unless the system is some extremely rare OS or
doesn't ship with a compiler at all -- neither of which is true of
FreeBSD.

R

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