On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 11:46, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:14:55AM -0600, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > > Interesting. > > > > Not what I would expect, though. > > > > Support for the web as a read only service, > > and total buy-in to cable ISP policies(/shackles). > > > > I want customers like you! ;-) > > All trolls aside, here's a (very) idealistic Linux scenario: > > Assume momentarily that the reason for limiting services is not just > bandwidth, but security and ISPs wanting to limit their liability for > millions of M$ users having vulnerable boxes open to the world, how > about the following policy: > > "No servers, HTTP, FTP, yada, yada, will be allowed *except* those > that run on a demonstrably secure platform." > > -- You mean they're not going to let somebody run any form of Window? :) ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------