Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:00:46 -0500 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: The big IDE fight in a different light |
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > 2.4. And no one in this office will, either. If all versions of Linux > are susceptible, maybe we'll look for a different OS where it is more > difficult to accomplish this damage. We cannot afford data destruction, > but even more importantly we CERTAINLY cannot afford having our disks > physically destroyed.
What if there is no such OS, but rather a flaw in the whole hardware architecture design? Where do you run then?
If Andre hadn't posted the code, someone eventually would had. It's not unfortunate he did that at all; but rather quite fortunate that he did. Because now it brings it out to the public. Do you really think he was the first one to notice this?
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