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[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:28, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> UNIX was designed long before there was an Internet.  And its
> security model shows it.  (Sudo is an afterthought, not the primary
> model.)  A modern security model would be capabilities-based -- you
> know, two generations of security architecture past what UNIX was
> designed with.

Michael,

You seem to like bashing UNIX. I know your background - long time 
Windows user and developer who finds the future DRM route abhorrent 
so you switched to Linux instead, and Ubuntu is the only distro you 
tested that you found you could live with.

Over the past three months I've watched you point out Linux's flaws 
many times, but only *once* point out something advantageous - that 
was concerning partitions and parted. The UNIX security model and 
lack of ALSA documentation seem to be your particular favourites. You 
don't seem to ever mention Window's flaws, yet I'm sure you are quite 
knowledgeable about them. 

So, please answer these two simple questions:

a) How is the Windows model superior to, and offer more protection to, 
the user's personal files over the Linux model? i.e. are a user's 
files safer on Windows than on Linux?

b) Why haven't you hacked ALSA and fixed it? You have the skills and 
I'm sure the ALSA team would appreciate some help. This would be a 
good way for you to repay the world-wide Linux community for the OS 
they gave you free as in beer and free as in freedom.

-- 
If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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