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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:37:18 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        ugen@latte.worldbank.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw vs ipfilter
Message-ID:  <199608141737.KAA29366@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <14773.840033327@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 14, 96 07:35:27 am

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> > Heh:) 
> > Well..intresting enough it always works this way - first ppl take it, then
> > they screw it  and then they say it's bad and take something else. 
> > Thanx guys...
> 
> With all due respect, Ugen, the code was a filthy mess when you gave
> it to us and was in absolutely no shape to continue using in that way.
> It was bad to start with and nobody needed to "screw" anything.  If
> anything it's been substantially improved over the last 6 months or
> so, but dressing a pig in tuxedo still doesn't change him from being a
> pig.

Not to defend the code, but this is the same tuxedo/pig argument I
get when I suggest UNIX instead of a Microsoft OS (UNIX being the
pig in the aphorism).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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