AMEN!
Pelon wrote:
>
> A disturbing trend in this modern age
> is that we feel compelled to protect us from
> ourselves. Microsoft offered up a convenient
> black box that protected us from the horrors of
> it's inner truth. Linux was to be the answer to
> that ignorance-by-consent.
>
> I began using Linux over two years ago for the
> sole reason that I could see inside. I could
> break it, rebuild it, tease it, and shape it as I
> pleased. I could play god, or "root" as it were.
>
> But now that the general public has turned on to
> Linux, there are pressures to see it controlled.
> No one wants to see anyone hurt themselves. The
> public must be protected.
>
> As Mandrake, Redhat, or any other distribution
> begins to feel the heat of a distraught public,
> certain measures must be taken. Mandrake's new
> security restrictions are what the public is
> asking for.
>
> Many of us are upset that our former freedoms
> have been robbed of us in the latest release. If
> there was ever a higher purpose to the Linux
> operating system, these changes are it's defeat.
>
> I would recommend two new classes of installation:
>
> 1. protect me from myself
> 2. let me be free
>
> pelon
