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  From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com>
  To  : Adam Smith <adam.smith@sageautomation.com>
  Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:23:08 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Steve Ballmer Not Loosing Sleep Over Linux

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Adam Smith wrote:

> > http://news.com.com/2008-1082-998297.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
> > 
> > >Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years 
> > >old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a clone of a 
> > >20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't have some place for 
> > >some customers, but that is not an innovative proposition.
> 
> This is the portion I most disliked reading.  The architecture of the
> system may be 20 odd years old, but the technology powering it is not.
> This remark is clearly just not true.
> 
> You could say Windows, while evolving from MS-DOS to Windows 98 to Windows
> NT, was up to type 3 of it's kernel, but they still base their systems
> around the idea of having C-Drives and unstructured file systems.  They've
> changed their architecture because the software they've produced in the
> past has been shit.  
> 
> The so-called clone still looks and feels the same because it was based on
> a model that has proven to work well, and that other operating systems
> have also based themselves upon.  The statement is a total crock.

Akk of this rhetoric obscures the fact that there are one or two 
interesting features of NT that would be nice to have under UNIX. 

I am thinking of real ACLs and a hierarchical UID space (SIDs are two 
level but somewhat over architected) and they allow you to easily 
distinguish between anonymous users, guest users, and users from different 
domains.

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

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