On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 05:22, Fabian Sturm wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:32:10PM +0200, Tobin Fricke wrote: > > > > I think your idea that a GNU System shouldn't allow the sysadmin to limit > > the freedoms of the users is pretty ridiculous. After all, it's the > > sysadmin who owns the machine, pays for the network connection, is > > responsible for network traffic originating at the machine, etc... > > Certainly if a sysadmin WANTED to give users free reign of the machine, > > that's fine... but they're certainly under no obligation to do so. > > I really get mad when I hear that the sysadmin owns the machine and pays > for its used resources. Whenever I worked somewhere and I had a sysadmin > it was the sysadmin who got payed by me and wouldnt be there if > we wouldnt work with the computers and need them. > And I lost so much time (which means money) just because the sysadmin > thought I wouldnt need this or that feature or similar. > > So please dont think that sysadmins should have any right to forbid > something to the users who actually use the machines. > In my eyes is this one of the biggest grievence which exist nowadays. > E.g. not to have the possibility to set up a crypto filesystem > on your own in Linux..
All true. I think the intended point, however, was that it's not the OS developer's job to make those decisions; they should provide the tools to allow the users/sysadmin/owner/whoever to make it. If the users, sysadmin, and owner of a box all agree that something is a good thing to do, it's not the OS developer's job to contradict them. (Unless, of course, the feature isn't available yet.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
