Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? | | Date | 17 Mar 1999 06:13:44 GMT |
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Followup to: <19990317004021.B14484@anjala.mit.edu> By author: Arvind Sankar <arvinds@mit.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > This isn't windows, its linux. We move to better things even if it breaks > things that _don't_ depend on undocumented features. >
Uh, yeah, although we should avoid doing that whenever possible. However, unlike Windows we *do* use that one exception :)
-hpa -- "The user's computer downloads the ActiveX code and simulates a 'Blue Screen' crash, a generally benign event most users are familiar with and that would not necessarily arouse suspicions." -- Security exploit description on http://www.zks.net/p3/how.aspb
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