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> If it was left to companies, they would still be shipping software with 68K code. You seem to think that would be a bad thing. Why? The operating system is

• scarface74 7y ago
  Every piece of code in an operating system means a larger surface area for vulnerabilities, more support cost, more maintenance for both developers and the operating system maintainers, etc. If you want to see how badly this can go wrong - look at Windows. Over a decade ago there were over a half a dozen different ways to represent a string in Windows and depending on which API you called, you had to translate between them. Also, one of the earliest widespread vulnerabilities was caused by IIS not checking all of the different types of string encodings. You could literally pass DOS commands via the url bar just by encoding them and they would run on the server.
  • cwyers 7y ago
    The logical extension of this belief is to just turn the computer off. That way it's not running any code and is 100% secure.
    • scarface74 7y ago
      In the real world there are trade offs. This is engineering 101.