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Freeing web services with Forkolator

Freeing web services with Forkolator

Posted Nov 29, 2007 19:56 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Freeing web services with Forkolator by sepreece
Parent article: Freeing web services with Forkolator

Copy-on-write sounds like a good idea, except that (a) you'd need database support for it, (b)
you still have the "anybody could read everybody's personal data and crack their passwords"
problem.


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Freeing web services with Forkolator

Posted Nov 30, 2007 1:33 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

Sure - I was assuming access controls would still be in place for private data and only
talking about an approach to allowing software forks to work on communal sites.

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