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- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Managing Innovation
- From: ari@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (K. Ari Krupnikov)
- Date: 01 Oct 2003 01:35:21 -0700
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Joe English <jenglish@flightlab.com> writes:
> Tim Bray wrote:
> > Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > >>>Can we 'do the simplest thing that will possibly work'
> > >>>and still produce a secure system.
> > >>
> > >>Sure; viz Unix.
> > >
> > > This is probably the funniest thing I've ever read on XML-DEV.
> >
> > Really? Which part? The assertion that Unix is basically simpler than
> > the alternatives, or the assertion that it achieves a good level of
> > security? I happen to think that both are true.
>
>
> I thought the proposition that Unix is "the simplest thing
> that will possibly work" was the funny part.
I didn't. All alternatives I know of are either more complicated or
less secure or both.
Ari.
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