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Date: Fri Mar 24 07:48:41 2006
From: BlueBoar at thievco.com (Blue Boar)
Subject: Re: SendGate: Sendmail Multiple Vulnerabilities
	(Race Condition DoS, Memory Jumps, Integer Overflow)

Theo de Raadt wrote:
> (who are you again?)

Your customer.

> That does not make it right for our user community to attack
> developers for their freely given efforts.  People who get attacked
> might stop trying to improve the code.

Attacking commercial software developers makes them write better code, 
attacking free software developers makes them feel bad and quit.  Got it.

> You could run other software, you know.

And you could write your software without bitching at the people who 
help you pay your bills.  I can't see that changing real soon either. 
But hey, you keep being you, and I'll keep buying your stuff in spite of 
your attitude, because it's good software.

I use DJB's software under the same circumstances, so I'm used to it.

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