Re: Unable to compile cygwin

["Arash Partow" <arashp at hotmail dot com>]

proving a negative is much harder than proving a positive...


Arash Partow


> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:15:34AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote:
> Jim Ramsay wrote:
> > Ha! Ask that boss to prove to you that there is no security problem
> > running Windows on a 'secure' network.
>
> To a person with that mentality, Bill Gates is implicitly trustworthy
> (i.e.  if he says it's true, it must be true by definition, because
> it's a "big company that stands by its products"), while anything Open
> Source is written by h4x0rs and thus must "prove its trustworthiness".
>
> How, you ask them?  They don't know, but you'd better "know".  No point
> arguing with them..
>
> Proving the trustworthiness of any important system is never a waste of
> time.
>
>
> cgf

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