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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:54 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> My question: WTF uses these poorly written ftp servers? Why do they |
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> exist? Who asked for them? Who wrote the code, and why? |
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> My tentative guess: either evil programmers, or incompetent programmers. |
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> (I suspect the intersection of the two sets is very small.) |
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I think you get the one-man-Windows-shareware kind of projects, which |
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are almost surely going to have holes caused by |
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incompetence/inexperience. You have academic projects which are mostly |
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abandoned or left in a state of disrepair (like wu-ftpd, remember |
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that?). Then you get the huge-corporation kind of proejcts which have |
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holes based on rushing to meet deadlines, undocumented decade-old |
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legacy mystery code that nobody knows about, managers who don't care |
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about security until after a bug is found, etc. |
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