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I think the absence of real world usable secure alternatives is not really strong evidence, operating systems are like web browsers, there's such huge inertia a
by fulafel 2y ago
I think the absence of real world usable secure alternatives is not really strong evidence, operating systems are like web browsers, there's such huge inertia and network effects in the apps that competition doesn't tend to spring up, "build it and they will come" doesn't work.
On the research side there's lots of stuff. Singularity, the various capability based systems, Qubes (granted more towards the adding-features dimension), etc.
- simiones 2y agoI agree to some extent, but still: if you were starting your own company, would you wait until someone wrote a secure OS? Or would you provide your developers and sales people etc. with an existing OS, and run your servers on an existing OS, and deploy other security tools to mitigate the bugs in those existing OSs?