Re: Desktop apps interoperability

[Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com>]

On Apr 1, 2005 5:05 AM, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:13 +0200, Tom wrote:
> > He does have a point, though - sometimes the application can not be
> > changed. It may be a legacy application and for all I care, those are
> > the ones most in need of a protective cage.
> 

Unchangeable legacy apps should die.
 
> Sure, and at that point, you just confine it as best as you can while
> still allowing whatever functionality you require.  SELinux supports
> that need just fine.  But you don't want to just accept that status quo
> for all applications for all time, which seemed to be Casey's attitude.
> 
[snipped...]

I think everybody agrees that aggressive refactorization of source
code is a good thing. Therefore in an open source environment legacy
apps dont exist.

-- 
Blood is thicker than water... and much tastier
                                           John Davidorff Pell

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