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.
That's what the whole IE-bundling lawsuit was about. Microsoft's argument was that they indeed do *ON PURPOSE* AS PART OF THEIR BUSINESS PLAN embed the IE code in the kernel. When some CS prof demonstrated an IE-less Windows system, MS almost immediately issued an SP bolting IE in so tightly that there would be no repeat performances. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org