From: Harald Korneliussen <vintermann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A scary story from the real world.
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:40:32 -0000
Date: 2007-11-10T21:40:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194730832.633499.264010@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa4pryjx8tf.fsf@snoopy.microcomaustralia.com.au>
On Nov 10, 1:06 am, Brian May <b...@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> I see only two solutions:
>
> 1. Microsoft write or review drivers themselves. Unlikely to
> happen. Even with an open source model like Linux, some drivers that
> end up in the kernel are horrible (or so I have heard); there are
> simply too many drivers to review and possibly rewrite every one.
They do have a driver signing procedure, now, and some sort of
conformance testing. I don't know the details, but it has obviously
helped a lot compared to what we had before.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 17:33 A scary story from the real world Per Sandberg
2007-11-09 20:46 ` Jerry
2007-11-09 21:15 ` Per Sandberg
2007-11-09 21:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-10 23:03 ` Jerry
2007-11-11 0:11 ` tmoran
2007-11-11 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-12 7:36 ` Harald Korneliussen
2007-11-12 8:27 ` Brian May
2007-11-12 13:04 ` Stephen Leake
2007-11-12 15:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-11 14:24 ` Brian Drummond
2007-11-09 22:09 ` anon
2007-11-10 0:06 ` Brian May
2007-11-10 5:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-10 21:40 ` Harald Korneliussen [this message]
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