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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Suggestion
From:       dep <dep () snet ! net>
Date:       2000-08-30 12:51:02
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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.

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dep
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As to the security of Unix, just consider this:
Traditionally they've used Unix to guard harems . . .
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