On 09/14/2017 11:46 PM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
A fair point. But...on the other hand, a major platform. Not by our
criterion, which is more or less "Are flocks of these going to be
running in $J_RANDOM_HUMONGOUS_DATACENTER?" Part of our strategy is
to optimize for the toughest, highest-end users on the newest
hardware. Classic can keep the hobbyists, we're after the people who
can and sometimes actually do write big donation checks. We want them
to trust us and love us and give us money and lend us engineers.
As I understood it part of the rationale for NTPsec was the yawning
security chasms in NTPclassic. Shouldn't wide adoption therefore be
highly desirable?
Possible answer: Aunt Tillie is not going to hunt down NTPsec and
install it, we can't get any real foothold in the diffuse installed
base. But NTPsec *can* get into new OS releases and big server farms.
Your attribution to Bruce suggests that you don't know where he picked up the
term, and you are obviously the kind of person who likes to know such things.
So, "Externality" is a term of art in economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
@Fred Wright
Along this line of thought you should look up Coase's Therom; there is a
tremendous amount of generative value in understanding it.
--
In the end; what separates a Man, from a Slave? Money? Power?
No. A Man Chooses, a Slave Obeys. -- Andrew Ryan
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