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Re: Hacker Goes Public with Unpatched Browser Bugs

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:33:07 -0500, Linonut wrote:

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Funkenbusch belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>>> I can remove every trace of Konqueror from my machine, yet still browse
>>> the web, and filesystem.
>>
>> That's completely irrelevant.  The argument was that the very act of
>> providing a combined web and filesystem browser was insecure.  If you're
>> bying this argument, but using KDE, then you're not very smart.
> 
> You're just cherry-picking from Roy's post.

Uhh.. no, his enitre post was about the integration of the filesystem and
web browser and how this is inherantly insecure and had no reason other
than to compete with Netscape.

If that's so, then why did KDE see a reason to combine them?  And why isn't
KDE held to the same criticism as IE?

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