On Sun, 1 May 2005, Ben Goren wrote:
> I did *not* say that I expected a Sendmail replacement any time
> soon--quite the opposite. Let me put a definite limit on this: I'd bet
> no more than (a modest) lunch, and only on the condition that I already
> happened to be in the same city when the bet came due, that, the next
> time we see an OpenWHATEVER, it's an OpenSMTPD. We may not ever see
> another OpenWHATEVER, though that bunch just has too much fun hacking
> for me to imagine that. There may well be something like OpenNTPD that
> somebody like Henning is quietly working on--and, in fact, this is more
> likely to be the case than any particular specific thing.
To show you the value of this kind of speculations, I'm going to "rebrand"
dc(1) and bc(1) to OpenDC and OpenBC. And I'll wait with that until the
moment we're in the same town.
-Otto
