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[Pan-users] Re: Follow question
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Duncan |
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[Pan-users] Re: Follow question |
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:05:04 +0000 (UTC) |
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Ron Johnson posted on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:13:04 -0500 as excerpted:
> The flip-side of this is the PC mentality, which presumes that only one
> person will really use a computer, and so apps are designed in a very
> "selfish" manner, under the assumption that the logged-in user owns the
> hardware. (Windows has actually gotten slightly better in this regard,
> pushed, I think, by the virus/worm threat and Linux.)
LOL. True, and I thought about posting a nice long (for me, several
hundred lines) diatribe detailing how terrible the MICROS~1 "selfish"
assumption and method are, and how *ix is so much better, but I decided
that wasn't apropos to the situation. So I simply briefly described why
*ix (including Linux) normally works the way it does in that regard,
rather ignoring the MS side, about which I don't have a lot good to say
anyway, and it would only serve to mix up the message I was trying to
deliver, so I decided it was best left unsaid, and left it at that.
Besides, as I mentioned, I'm not up with whatever changes MICROS~1 might
have developed in the last nearing a decade now, anyway, tho from what I
read they /have/ gotten a bit better in that regard, so again, it was
best not to focus on that, focusing instead on the Linux concept and why
it works as it does.
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