[Info-vax] A few tools for improving software security

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-22, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <uolqc2$o1rq$4 at dont-email.me>,
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>On 2024-01-21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:10 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), John Dallman wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's two quite hard
>>>> things, and starting on them now makes less sense than carrying on with
>>>> the current strategy, for good or ill.
>>>
>>> I think that?s called the ?sunk-cost fallacy?.
>>
>>So VSI's choices are to either continue selling x86-64 systems to customers
>>and complete the missing bits, or they stop selling systems for 3 years
>>while they write a migration tool from the ground up for something that
>>will never be as close in operation as the first option above.
>>
>>Hmmm, I wonder which option they will choose ? :-)
>>
>>Lawrence, you manage to make the current bunch of extreme zealots on both
>>sides of the political landscape in the US seem reasonable.
>
> I would suggest respectfully to stop feeding the troll.  Or, as
> I suspect he's less a troll than just a crank, perhaps stop
> turning the crank.
>

I know Dan. I'm finally at the end of trying to reason with him, and
I have come to the same conclusion that others have, but I consider it
rude to just stop talking to someone without explaining why, which
I have now done. :-)

Simon.

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