Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 08 February 2008 07:52, jdd wrote:
Randall R Schulz a écrit :
even Microsoft would commit such a technological travesty for the sake of thwarting a lawsuit or some regulations.
fact is many windows applications don't run at all if not used as administrator, and this opens all.
Be that as it may, there is a huge difference between running an application (or all applications) with administrative privileges and being a part of the kernel. The former, while something we all know and agree is a bad idea, is not an engineering travesty (it's a security travesty). The latter most certainly is an egregious violation of OS design principles. And while I do think Linux is technologically superior to Windows in very many ways, I don't think MS OS engineers are foolish enough to put application code in the kernel.
Here's some Wikipedia stuff on it. My impression is that there are a lot of good employees at Microsoft who want to do the right thing, including the engineers, but they get overruled by Bill & Steve, if for competitive advantage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org