Re: Personal Firewall Day?

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Gary Flynn wrote:
> I think we're addicted to general purpose computing because of its versatility,
> freedom, and associated potential to innovate

Gary has put his finger on the one big outstanding flaw in my
argument. :( Innovation. The kind of computing environment I
think we actually need would dramatically stifle the ability to
innovate. But --- AOL users can't innovate within their AOL-sphere
and don't appear to miss it. But that's probably because they
can apply customizations via the surrounding underlying O/S.

The desire to customize is amazingly powerful and cannot be
discounted. I think it's the main reason we won't shift to the
kind of environment I think we could build that would solve
a lot of our computing problems. :(  Hey - I didn't say I had
all the answers!! Actually, I think I have all the questions! :)

mjr. 

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