RE: standards status in the industry - opinion?

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Stephen Villano to Drsolly (?):

> Hmmmm, I know a boatload of users who format floppies every day.

And they use format.com for doing that, rather than being mouse-jockeys 
in Explorer??  AFAIK there is no way to tell Explorer _from the 
commandline used to invoke it_ that you want it to run and format a 
drive without providing any user interaction.  That's why you would 
want to protect "dumb users" from format.com (and by "dumb" I don't 
mean "outright stupid" but "know less about what the nasties might be 
able to do than I know" -- i.e. about 99.999999% of the planet).

> > Maybe we have to think the unthinkable, and aim for an OS that isn't
> > general-purpose.
> Not general-purpose: Corporate for "Not for us, we need bang for the buck". 
> If you're uncertain as to the meaning of THAT, look up OS/2...

One would have hoped for a more, ahhh "informed" view from the 
military, but at least you aren't in the part of the US military that 
had an aircraft carrier dead in the water for several hours due to its 
dependence on NT machines for some critical functions though, so maybe 
there's some room for hope there...    8-)


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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