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Re: Managing Innovation

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Managing Innovation
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:55:09 -0700
• Cc: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>,"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,Chris Wilper <cwilper@c...>, xml-dev@l...
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>>>Can we 'do the simplest thing that will possibly work' 
>>>and still produce a secure system.
>>
>>Sure; viz Unix.
> 
> This is probably the funniest thing I've ever read on XML-DEV. 

Really?  Which part?  The assertion that Unix is basically simpler than 
the alternatives, or the assertion that it achieves a good level of 
security?  I happen to think that both are true.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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