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Date: Tue Oct 4 14:13:11 2005
From: steve at unixwiz.net (Steve Friedl)
Subject: Bigger burger roll needed
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:51:34AM -0400, security curmudgeon wrote:
> Fine, it isn't PR spin. But, compare this to Unix. How many times do you
> run user-land, 3rd party applications, that cause a kernel panic?
They don't, but they don't in Windows either: We're talking about
*drivers* doing this. If an application causes a BSOD by its own
account, then it's a bug in the OS.
> And the first few years of Windows 95 saw many, *many* BSODs that were due
> to Microsoft code. That lead to the general impression and sentiment you
> see today.
No disagreement with this.
Steve
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