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by Tycho 5673 days ago
You know that scene in Independence Day when Jeff Goldbloom flies into the mothership and uploads a program to shut it down? That.

No, I don't mean an alien empire running on Mac OS 7.6.5, I mean extreme interoperability so software can rewrite itself to work on a different platform (self-porting, in other words).

Having said that, their firewalls were lacking!