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Re: Simplifying IKE



On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Michael Thomas wrote:
>  > No; belief and reality *are* different.  The way you tell the difference
>  > is to design and build a decent-but-not-all-things-to-all-people solution,
>  > and listen to see if the outraged screams and angry grumbling slowly die 
>  > away.
> 
>    Ah, the beloved OS vendor to the masses stance.

No, actually, the Unix/TCP-IP/C stance.  Build a decent general-purpose
solution, and most of the people who were complaining about needing custom
solutions will discover that general-purpose solutions really are good
enough for them after all. 

Of course, if instead you build a crappy general-purpose solution, this
will just reinforce their belief that they need custom solutions.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net



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