Re: Frivolous forking

[D. J. Bernstein]

Peter C. Norton writes:
> <make-believe> If dan is on sabbatical in Malaysia in the middle of
> the 2 month Malaysian internet blackout of 1999, and he's hiking in
> the mountains anyway, and a "REAL" qmail security hole is found, where
> does that leave the hypothetical* vendor or OEM that's shipping qmail?
> </make-believe>

Everyone would distribute binary patches. What's the big deal?

No, it's not something you'd want to do every day, but it's hardly the
end of the world.

---Dan