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In article <7371@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

|   In article <STEINARB.91Nov11221334@fenris.idt.unit.no> steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang) writes:
|   >The GNU OS will be a system made *by* programmers, *for* programmers
|   >(and thus follows the priorities of programmers).
|
|   Cool!  No superusers?  No permissions/prohibitions?  No passwords?
|
|   I've never seen a programmer that put any of that crap
|   as a priority.
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Eh?  UNIX started as a system by and for programmers, and it has those
because the very clever programmers wrote it had their heads screwed on
right.  As opposed to, say, the people who came up with MSDOS, which lacks
all of those things you mentioned and are wholly inadequate for shared
or distributed use.  Actually, in my opinion they are also wholly
inadequate for individual use -- I use permissions all the time to
protect me from myself and the superuser distinction has often saved me
from mistakes that would have been very painful on a PC or Macintosh.

If you've never met a programmer who valued "that crap", your experience
must be painfully limited...
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