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Quote: "Also, and this is what really floors me - he is able to share his screen with a remote user, and vice versa - it's built into the system. In 2011, we st
by malkia 16y ago
Quote: "Also, and this is what really floors me - he is able to share his screen with a remote user, and vice versa - it's built into the system. In 2011, we still need to install software on each machine to do this, and there's no universal standard for the action of simply sharing your dang desktop with someone else."
The tragedy of the commons? We learn our kid to share his toys with other kids, yet Olivia (a kid's show feauring a family of pigs) said it best - "Mommy why don't you share your car with granny" - something along the line.
So the technical achievement was done already years ago! Or at least it's establishment.
Since them we are fighting the social problem - access, passwords, protection, process isolation, boxing, etc - all that would've not been needed in early days of computing.
I wish that would've been not needed today, yet as a human I know that we better have it.