* David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> [2006-07-06 12:25]: > Translated into English ... > > " We at Microsoft are too fucking stupid to prevent > applications from fucking with our OS. We recommend > switching to OS X. Or Linux. Or OS/400. Anything but > Windows. "
Are you telling me that OS X or Linux or OS/400 stop any and all apps from fucking with the OS? If so, can you explain to me how their developers solved the halting problem? (Yes, I know that they do make it harder to screw things up. Nevertheless, root exploits exist everywhere. The sort of *guarantee* that you're saying Microsoft are "too stupid" to give is impossible to give.) And of course, this is about drivers, not apps. However, * Matt McLeod <m...@boggle.org> [2006-07-06 14:10]: > It's more of an advertisement for their driver "certification" > process. It's a message to driver developers: "pay us a > boatload of money for your driver to be certified, or we'll > make it look like your software is shonky so people will go buy > hardware from someone else". Ding ding ding ding ding ding! Exactly. "Developers, developers, developers! Developers, developers!", -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>