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Date:      Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:00:46 -0800
From:      "Brett Glass" <brettglass@ml1.net>
To:        "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>, "Mike Jeays" <mj001@rogers.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject:   Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.
Message-ID:  <20030105210046.D06DF1A26C@www.fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030105134145.02935820@localhost>
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On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:49:01 -0700, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>
said:

> It is a big deal -- in time, money, and especially documentation of
> the clean room process.

Rome wasn't build in day. Do you remember how the first Compaq PC was
build? They did a clean room implementation of the (by then) proprietary
IBM PC BIOS. I wonder if, instead of constantly bash GPL alternatives to
proprietary products, have you ever contacted the author(s) and/or
implemented a BSDL version yourself.

I've recently done that, in case you're going to ask:
http://www.brettglass.com/downloads/bgcc-0.0.tar.gz

> Even though NFS implements "security" via the strict and rigorous
> process of checking IP addresses (and we all know that IP addresses
> can NEVER be spoofed). ;-)

IPsec'd NFS is okay in most cases. Even plain NFS is far better than
CIFS. About lack of nfs clients for MS operating systems, have you
considered writing one? Or are you just waiting for someone else to do
it? Intergraph used to sell a quite okay version, which could be easily
fed into IDAPro and reverse engineered in 2-3 weeks.

> (for a few of them) MacOS. (Some of the MacOS users are balking
> at the MacOS X GUI, though, and are getting Dell machines running
> Windows XP. Out of the frying pan....)

Install a newbie Linux distro for them, then.

> If SAMBA were truly free, there'd be no need to do so.

You can probably use e-mail to share files, no big deal.
 
--Brett Glass

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