Re: Lindows Insecurity comes from the top down

[JD Runyan]

All right, I think this is my last post on this thread, because this 
mythical single-user is too big of a pain in the ass. I wouldn't work 
with him for very long. He is the same guy who would buy a $5000 HDTV, 
and then plug it into an antenna on the roof, and wonder why the picture 
isn't any better(maybe worse) than what he had on his 20". The bright 
side of this thread is you have reminded me clearly why I no longer 
support end-users directly. I can like people better when they don't ask 
me the stupid questions. I get to smile and have lunch with  them, and 
some help desk geek can curse them in WDC.

Stewart Stremler wrote:
                                        I think the most important step 
to protecting all of this, is to make smart things easy, and dumb things 
hard. When I say dumb things, I mean anything that requires a certain 
level of competence to measure the risk, and then mitigate it. If it is 
hard, then the average user will usually solicit a little help, and the 
risks may be kept to a minimum.

That doesn't sound like UNIX anymore.
-Stewart "Dumb things or clever things depends entirely on context." Stremler
I'm talking from the point view of Joe Nonothing User, not us. If there 
isn't a nice shiny button to install and turn on a feature, they 
probably won't venture there. I'm not encouraging the breaking of  the 
back end.

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