On Dec 7, 2007 5:10 AM, Andris <adelfino@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is two messages from Hugo Leisink (Hiawatha developer). You'll
> note that the first has a newer date than the later, that's because I
> delete it, and I asked Hugo to send it to me again :P
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Hugo Leisink <hugo@leisink.net>
> Date: Dec 7, 2007 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Hiawatha
> To: Andris <adelfino@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> Andris wrote:
> > Could you please send your first e-mail to me again? I forgot to save
> > it to forward it later :P
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> Sure, here it is:
>
>
> Hi Andres,
>
> I saw your post about Hiawatha in OpenBSD. I'd like to respond to the
> remarks about "Hiawatha's source code is free of security-bugs" on the
> Hiawatha website.
>
> First of all, you have to take a look at the webserver market. You use
> Apache, IIS, Lighttpd or you don't use anything at all. If you want
> people to use your software, you have to 'beat Goliath'. People use
> Apache, because everybody else does, even when Apache is the worse fit
> for their purposes. I think Hiawatha has become a really good webserver.
> It's faster then Apache, is more secure then Apache and definitly more
> easy to configure then Apache. But people don't use it because 'it ain't
> Apache'. So, to draw people's attention and to make them at least try
> Hiawatha once, I have to make 'dangerous' statements like 'free of
> security bugs'.
>

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to the world?

Greg
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