[cap-talk] High level dissonance

[James A. Donald]

James A. Donald wrote:
 >> I envisage that when you download an operating system
 >> distro, a package manager is part of that distro, the
 >> package manager hands out install time privileges on
 >> the basis of the declared nature of the program that
 >> it is to install, and if a program to be installed
 >> requests extraordinary privileges on installation,
 >> installation will simply fail, will not even be
 >> possible unless the package has a digital signature
 >> blessed by the assemblers of the distro, or unless
 >> the end user takes extraordinary measures.

Ivan Krstic' wrote:
 > Not sure if you're aware, but this is almost exactly
 > the Bitfrost package installation design;

I am aware of your design, and may well have lifted the
idea wholesale from you without giving you credit.

Checking my web pages (local copy, not yet published) I
find that in my write up of this idea, I do credit you,
but in what I in fact published on this list, I by oversight
did not.