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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:09:08 -0700
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

> But my point was that this is an artefact of current trends, not a
> necessary condition.

no. It's a requirement for many secure environments, for one thing. That's
why it is not a technical issue.

ron