[GTALUG] MP BIOS Toshiba - semi revival

[William Witteman]

On 18 Mar 2015 12:59 pm, "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead, I'll step back to Thompson's paper...
>
> "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally
> create yourself."

This whole conversation/hissy-fit is missing yet another problem.  Even Ken
Thompson wrote code with bugs and constructed code vulnerable to
exploitation. I certainly don't blindly trust the code I write - I make the
confident assumption that it is buggy and possibly dangerous. If anyone on
Earth wrote a program that actually addressed my needs I wouldn't be
writing the code at all.

Trusting something so complicated it requires a computer to interpret and
run it is a challenge. Many approaches are being explored, differences of
opinion are being generated constantly.  That's OK.

There are a lot of things that are now standard that are based on history
rather than good theoretical bases.

Let's look at working solutions, ask questions and try to be friendly and a
little more understanding.

There is no right way, and priorities differ.
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