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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
