Thus said Michael Torrie on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:10:44 MDT: > There are a lot of other, probably better alternatives for most uses > though. Mostly for philosophical reasons, I steer clear of any > software written by Dan Bernstein. I don't happen to like his style > and none of his code is open source, certainly not free software. His > claim of bug-free code sounds an awful lot like a tiger-repelling rock > to me.
I don't think he has ever claimed it is bug free, secure yes, but not bug free. Why don't you call Dan out on his security hole free code? I'm sure the entire community would love to see someone find something that is actually exploitable. Imagine... qmail-1.03 was released over 10 years ago and none has yet to find an exploitable security hole. His code is extremely clean. As far as open source goes, I guess it all depends on what you mean by ``open source.'' He has donated a large portion of his code to the ``public domain'' so it is free to use by anyone. Here is at least one website that I know of that has bundled all his public domain code into a linkable library: http://smarden.org/pape/djb/ Andy -- [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 9:58pm up 3:18, 1 user, load average: 1.01, 1.19, 1.25 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
