Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 19:24:55 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. |
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Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> | The people who used to require that still have lists of approved > | operating systems. Linux is not on that list. > > To be blunt: and? > Linux is not and never will be all things to all people. (Some of that > can be seen in the ongoing discussions over, eg, LSM.) > There are many features that have far too small a target market to be > of interest in mainline Unix.
Large organizations like to standardize things wherever possible.
Given an OS that is well suited for a fairly secure environment that also runs widely-available office software, they will adopt it for both uses, thus locking out other operating systems.
Many of these decisions are made by Dumb White Guys sitting around a boardroom table looking at feature lists, and pushed by even dumber 3-letter consulting firms whose technical representatives say things like "Yes, we will be decrypting all SSL sessions at the firewall to check for viruses."
So I think Linux needs these 'fringe' features if it's going to continue to expand its user base in the face of such stupidity.
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