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

[Dave Froble]

On 1/23/2024 8:16 PM, bill wrote:
> On 1/23/2024 5:36 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 1/23/2024 8:13 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> What is really rude is talking about Linux on c.o.v ...
>>
>
> I don't know about rude, but even suggesting that the VMS kernel
> (which now runs just fine on x86-64) should be replaced with a
> Linux kernel has to be the stupidest idea I have ever seen here.
>
> bill
>

I don't know Bill, some pretty stupid things have graced c.o.v at times.

:-)

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