On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:20:39PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote:
> On Monday 03 December 2007 20:53:31 Damien Miller wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Andris wrote:
> > > I was reading about Hiawatha security features, and seems like a
> > > perfect fit for OpenBSD goals. I'd volunteer to talk to Hugo Leisink
> > > (the developer) and see if the code could be relicensed if the project
> > > has interest in it. IMHO, replacing forked software with actively
> > > developed one is a good idea.
> >
> > Firstly, forked software isn't necessarily undesirable so long as the
> > people maintaining it are motivated and clueful (in this case, they are).
> >
> > Secondly, I don't think anyone in OpenBSD would display as much hubris
> > as this claim on the Hiawatha home page: "Hiawatha's source code is
> > free of security-bugs".
> >
> > -d
>
> Thats not hubris, thats sheer stupidity.
>
> --STeve Andre'
I would classify it as hubris. Classical mythology learns us that
hubris is worse than sheer stupidity. We should fear the fate of the
Hiawatha developers, likely they will be the main characters in some
Greek drama soon.
-Otto
