Green Hills Software strikes again [LWN.net]

Green Hills Software strikes again

Posted May 4, 2004 14:22 UTC (Tue) by freethinker (guest, #4397)
Parent article: Green Hills Software strikes again

Security was not a focus of the original design of Linux, Unix, or Windows. They were all originally single user systems with no network access and therefore no need for security.

Um, well, technically true of Unix. For the first couple of years or so, I'd guess, before universities all over the world started using it.

Linus said SCO was smoking crack. Not sure what these guys are smoking...

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Green Hills Software strikes again

Posted May 4, 2004 18:42 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Possibly the original design of UNIX was a single user system (since it ran on an otherwise little-used computer), but version 2 was a time-sharing system. Back then, you didn't expect a single user to have a computer.

It's true that UNIX wasn't design for a public network. On the other hand, the public network was designed for UNIX, which is just as good.