Russ Allbery writes:
>
> Of course, such a virus, in the absence of other security holes, cannot
> infect more than one user's files. I again contend that this is precisely
> the difference between a single-user and multiuser system, and regardless
> of what people think of the stupidity of creating a single-user system,
> this IS NOT MICROSOFT'S SOLE FAULT because IT WASN'T THEIR IDEA IN THE
> FIRST PLACE and THE MACINTOSH, AND NEARLY EVERY OTHER "HOME" COMPUTER EVER
> MADE, WORKS EXACTLY THE SAME WAY.
>
> Sorry.
>
Oh, Russ, I think we all agree with you, or we wouldn't be running
Unix boxes-at least most of us are. The Unix permission structure is
what PC users hate about Unix. But tying a single user box on the
Internet is asking for trouble, like you say, because it immediately
becomes a multi-user box. When you come right down to it, the age of
the PC has gone. A multi-user personal computer is an oxymoron.
It is just probably difficult for a company like MS to change its
internal mentality and culture away from its foundations, which was
the PC.
Not to mention a lot of folks that think the PC is what computing is.
There is a lot of secretary software out there.
John
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