[E-Lang] what is good about E?

[Bill Frantz]

I've been saying for a long time that I want an EROS system so I have a
safe place to run a browser.  (I recently ran a browser looking at local
copies of web pages with a fake network defined to MacOS 9 so it wouldn't
be able to access the imbedded URLs in the pages.)

At 10:30 PM -0700 7/18/01, Marc Stiegler wrote:
>That is very amusing indeed, particularly since I've never heard anyone but
>me describe the point of capabilities as being, "not security, just giving
>people control over their lives again." Parallel evolution is taking place
>here :-)
>
>--marcs
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.org>
>To: "Marc Stiegler" <marcs@skyhunter.com>
>Cc: <e-lang@eros-os.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:06 PM
>Subject: Re: [E-Lang] what is good about E?
>
>
>> > Capability security is not half so much about "security"
>> > (passwords and that stuff, ick), as it is about giving back to the
>humans
>> > the control over what is being done "on their behalf...
>>
>> Having just seen this, I note with amusement that I sent my reply before
>> reading MarcS's. :-)
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>
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