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On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:30:15PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: > > As long as we are getting history out, It was moving towards death as a > _result_ of Vixie involvment from 1987-1994. I knocked heads with Vixie > around 1989/91 several times about Hesiod root servers, bugs and such > issues. Vixie was a such a jerk back then that I just gave up on DNS > altogther for about 10 years, as did a lot of other people. That's what > caused it to languish so that by 1994, Vixie could "take it over". > > But it was a mistake on to let it go to him. DNS in general has > languished for 10 years, at least. Look how long it took to get DNSSEC. > Compare DNSSEC to SSL, for example. Or HTTP. > > Of course, on the other hand, if he wasn't such an butthead, we wouldn't > have the veritable bonanza of DNS implementations, today. So, I suppose > unreasonable jerks are good overall, perhaps. > > I was surprised to read that no BIND8 developers were allowed to touch > BIND9. I knew that Vixie wasn't involved, but I thought there was a more > specific reason for that. In the spirit of self moderation of this list, might I suggest that you kindly STFU and/or take this to a list that is more appropriate. This rant has gotten off topic and out of hand even for the "zero censorship" crowd. Thanks. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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