Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
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Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
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As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
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When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
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Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.
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The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
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At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
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This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
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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.
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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.
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