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Wietse Venema Quotes

Dutch - Scientist | 1951 -

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Work Time Now Want Going Whole

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

Simple Stupid Security Software

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

Work People Choice Want Software

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

People Ship Want Will Software Box

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Survive Software Up Changing Only

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Business Effort Maintenance Software

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

Matter Just Code Adding

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

Software Reply Bugs Been Known

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

Service Process Windows Single Means

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.

Service Process Someone Windows Even

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

Change Security Stop Military Expect

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

People You Forget Way Software Keep

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