From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263570AbTJaU7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:59:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263571AbTJaU7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:59:32 -0500 Received: from outbound05.telus.net ([199.185.220.224]:49313 "EHLO priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263570AbTJaU7b (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:59:31 -0500 From: Herman Reply-To: Herman@AerospaceSoftware.com Organization: Aerospace Software Ltd. To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:59:50 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> <20031031193016.GA1546@thunk.org> <3FA2CA5E.3050308@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <3FA2CA5E.3050308@namesys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310311359.50893.Herman@AerospaceSoftware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 31 October 2003 8:47 pm, Hans Reiser wrote: > I can't get US bank accounts for my programmers working for me. Why? > Because every US bank without exception uses social security numbers as > a primary key. A person without a social security number cannot be > coped with. This is a weakness directly due to molding rather than > matching structure in data. No, that is a legal requirement, not a weakness due to molding, but I get your point. BTW, to my mind, the killer app in a business environment is the automatic file versioning feature in longhorn. This protects people against fat finger mistakes, and geez, any business has its fair share of fat head, fat finger and dumb blond types. This is the only feature from VMS that I am longing for... Cheers, H.