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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.


> ...
>
> jdd


Randall Schulz
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