From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261225AbTEAMPh (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 08:15:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261226AbTEAMPh (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 08:15:37 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:26118 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261225AbTEAMPh (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 08:15:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 14:27:49 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Larry McVoy Cc: paulus@samba.org, lm@bitmover.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Message-Id: <20030501142749.689260e8.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030501010317.GB8676@work.bitmover.com> References: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A9202032941@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com> <20030430152041.GA22038@work.bitmover.com> <16048.20899.694659.419853@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org> <20030501010317.GB8676@work.bitmover.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:03:17 -0700 Larry McVoy wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I think Microsoft as an OS company is the worldest > biggest joke. Anyone who thinks that socket "handles" are different > than file "handles" just doesn't get the abstraction at all. It's > pathetic, amazingly so. But they got the application support layer > pretty right or at least very useful and workable. ... and that may be the reason why such a lot third party vendors make big bucks on selling applications competitive to w.rd or ex.l or - the perfectly working and documented application support layer ... (in case one didn't notice) Regards, Stephan