Re: [Gnu-arch-users] windows file systems -- it just gets worse and worse

[David Brown]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:47:06PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:

> You know, when the goal of the maintainer of a proprietary OS seems to
> be to make applications ported from unix into second class citizens,
> perhaps the right response it _not_ to try to work around the stupid
> limitations of the proprietary OS.

I would argue that it is more significant than second class citizens.
There are numerous design features of said OS that have as their only
practical purpose to restrict useful things.  They seem to go out of
their way to make sure that only the user sitting at the machine can be
the one using it.

Dave