Re: [9fans] What is it used for today?

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109240741410.2055-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> you write:
>It's totally useless for business. If you're running plan 9, you have no
>way to propagate Outlook viruses, for example.
>
>Also, it's very important that any business OS have a superuser that can
>do anything, because that makes life so much more interesting for people
>-- esp. the wrong people. With all this opportunity we can keep the script
>kiddies off the streets. It also sells more "windows security for morons"
>type books.
>
>Finally, when programs like ISS run amok, you want them to have access to
>everything, so they have more room in which to play. Windows is absolutely
>ideal for this sort of thing.

You know, I was half-way through my morning cinnamon roll and coffee
when I read this.  Now, I have bits of cinnamon roll and coffee stuck
in my nassal passages, and it's very uncomfortable.  I intend to sue.
Sue you, sue me, sue everybody.

>[...] we can kill superusers.

Uh oh; I have the root password to the Unix machine down the hall.
Does this mean I should be scared?  (Not that I'm not scared already,
anyway.)

Okay, I'm returning to my daily routine and promise to send no more
off-topic silly posts to 9fans for at least a week.

	- Dan C.