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A comment on An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001).

Re:An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001) by rthomas6 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:28PM (#6370260)
So what happened with the idea to use programmable logic for firewalls? That idea still seems really doable. Has anything happened with that?
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Re:An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001) by vinceguidry on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @08:17PM (#6371113)
Another thing I don't understand is why didn't they just slap a microprocessor and a simple interface on it and call it a day. Seems like that would be an easy value-add.
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Re:An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001) by vickiku88 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @08:12PM (#6371102)
that was my first thought too :)
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