Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)
I've spent significant time reading DJB's source, particularly daemontools.  It makes me sad that programmers in this decade don't seem to be taking that much influence from him.<p>Commercial software is hopeless in terms of bloat and security holes.  Open source software is sadly not that much better.<p>The whole motivation for djbdns was all the glaring holes in BIND, and I think the same is true for qmail and sendmail.  Yet basically every institution in the world is running a pile of sloppy software that dumps our private data to hackers on command.<p>There is a lot to learn from djb.  He's about 10-20 years ahead of his time, and you have to read code to absorb the wisdom.<p>Here is some text that my help:<p><a href="http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/" rel="nofollow">http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/</a><p><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/257004/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/Articles/257004/</a>