Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 14:48:17 UTC 2016


On 9 October 2016 at 15:43, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 14:38:
>>
>> On 9 October 2016 at 12:56, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 9:28:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> I was not commenting on any particular topic, merely pointing out that
>>>> that Ralf (I think) said there are some things that Linux "does not
>>>> allow" and you answered this with a post referring to things that
>>>> Linux "can't" do and the two things are not the same. I also stated
>>>> that things that Linux will not allow are generally security related.
>>>>
>>>> Is any of that untrue?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You might as well state that the sun is not green and that might also not
>>> be
>>> untrue. But the question is whether that is relevant or related or
>>> whether
>>> it is a showstopper.
>>
>>
>> That is one question, but as I said it was not my point.  I was merely
>> pointing out that you had misread or misinterpreted the earlier post.
>> Nothing more or less than that.
>
>
> And that is simply not true. And apparently you are arguing for the sake of
> arguing.

In what way is it not true, it was my first post on this thread and
all I said was:

"I think there is a difference between *can't* meaning is not able to
and *won't allow* meaning there is something specifically stopping
that from happening.  The *won't allow* features are generally for
security reasons."

Colin




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