Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:03:18 -0400 |
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:49:03 PDT, Marc Perkel said: > From a user's perspective if you have not rights to access a file then > why should you be allowed to delete it?
Because it's your directory, dammit, and nobody else should be allowed to clutter it with files you can't even read. :)
What's so hard to understand about that viewpoint? Want to try to explain the converse to a Windows/Netware user? "But it's *MY* folder, why can't I get rid of this file I can't read and have no use for?"
Trying to make it "make sense to the user" without expecting the user to learn at least a bit about what's going on is futile, as Alan Perlis understood:
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
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