From: Brass, Phil (ISS Atlanta) (PBrassiss.net)
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 13:59:56 CST

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Excellent analogy, only the fishermen are on a planet where the number
of lakes doubles in size every 2 years, and the new lakes are magically
stocked with bigger, easier to catch fish (though usually much lower in
protein content, but this can grow with time if the lake has good
marketing).

Some fishermen are still back at good old Lake OpenSSH, which frankly
produces fish with some of the highest protein content known to men,
others spend their days on lake IIS or rpcss.dll, and these may someday
become fished out (is this really a possibility? No, not for IIS, but
could OpenSSH really ever be bug free? Lately it seems like you can
write "Hello, World!" without any bugs, but little else...), but there
are many more lakes, perhaps with smaller, less nutritious fish,
springing up all the time.

The nice thing about the guys who fish the old lakes with increasingly
sophisticated nets is, most of those nets would work on any lake they
took them too...

Gotta love analogies ;)

Phil

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