Netherlands, Programmer 1951
Wietse Zweitze Venema is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit.
Also known as Physicist
Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
Sure, but competition is good for the user.
Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.
Defect-free software does not exist.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
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.
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
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