Alan Grimes <agrimes@speakeasy.net> writes:
To me, capabilities are nothing but a buzzword that a tiny fraction of a minority of the academic computing community have latched on to, fetishized, and have turned into a cult religion. Now they are starting to mercilessly ram it down the throats of every kernel project that isn't already cast in stone such as unix.
To me, any security mechanism is nothing more than something I have to hack around to make the computer do anything useful at all. =( That's why I still love DOS, it does **ANYTHING** you ask it to.
+----------+ | PLEASE | | DO NOT | | FEED THE | | TROLLS | +----------+ | | | | .\|.||/.. -- "Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay (OOPSLA 1997 Keynote)