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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Sat Nov 1 17:17:48 2003
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:16:45 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
Cc: Email@merit.edu, List@merit.edu:nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Dave Howe wrote:
>
> Brian Bruns wrote:
> > My favorite quote is...
> >
> > BG: Until we had this concept of Web services, software on the
> > Internet couldn't talk to other software on the Internet. The only
> > thing that worked was you could move bits - that's TCP/IP -
> > or you could put up screens - that's HTML - but software
> > couldn't talk to software.
> what *is* TCP/IP if it isn't software talking to software?
The rules software talking to softare is supposed to follow?