Hello, no-name, On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:39, suse@rio.vg wrote:
All they need to get it to do is crash X. Doesn't matter if the whole system comes down if they can just convince X to crash. X is a whole heck of a lot easier to bring down than the kernel.
Well, all you need is a bit of this and the X server will be suitably bomb-proofed.
Personally, I don't buy the claim. Windows is MS's cash cow, porting their apps to linux at this point seems backwards to me. But then, it's MS, so who knows what goes on through those greedy little minds?
I think one factor to consider is that MS is at least considering, if not actively planning, to take the Office suite to the Web. The stand-alone application could eventually be abandoned. E.g.: http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/index.php?p=41
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Randall Schulz