[plug] Optus at Home is secure... joking, of course

Oliver White ojw at iinet.net.au
Wed May 31 09:11:45 WST 2000


Mike Holland wrote:

> Well you could say that about Linux. OK, linux doesnt make it so easy,
> but what about Gnome/KDE ? If they dont let you double click a perl
> attachment now, I bet something soon will.

Interesting POV, but I think there's definitely room to learn from Microsoft's
mistakes. For instance, Gnumeric allows perl and python scripting, but the scripts
have to be manually loaded before they'll run. This will remain the case until a
way can be proven to allow safe auto-loading of scripts (says the team).

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Oliver White




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