From kde Wed Aug 30 12:51:02 2000 From: dep Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:51:02 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: Suggestion X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=96763965102804 On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Derek Fountain wrote: | You seem to be making the assumption that the | system-critical components will be shipped in a state where | they crash. GNOME has a need for this kind of, er, | "feature"; KDE doesn't. no, nice thought but not quite true, as several situations involving kicker and appletproxy have demonstrated. there are just too many variations among hardware and distributions (to say nothing of the bright ideas we users may come up with) to say that anything is bulletproof. -- dep -- As to the security of Unix, just consider this: Traditionally they've used Unix to guard harems . . . -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral