Our solutions provide something that is 100% right, all the time. That is the idea. The cobbled together gunk never does [...] It's unfortunate the application-level people are all caught up in cobble, cobble, cobble and just never learn how to evolve.

— Theo de Raadt, Re: using OpenBSD instead of F5 Big-IP (was Cisco routers) (2005)

Source: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111163273330909

A 2005 openbsd-misc mailing-list reply comparing CARP and pfsync to shell scripts.

Topics: software design, software engineering