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On 7/25/2024 3:21 AM, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2024 at 00:19:33 BST, "Scott Dorsey" <Scott Dorsey> wrote:
> 
>> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> I saw an article where Microsoft was blaming the EU for forcing them
>>> to allow 3rd-party access to the Kernal, which they claim is what
>>> enabled the update to do bad things. If that is true, they may have a
>>> point.
>>
>> There is always third-party access to the kernel.  In the Windows NT days
>> before Microsoft had figured out 1960s-style memory protection, any program
>> in user space could make changes to the kernel.  And sometimes they
>> accidentally did.
> 
> Are you sure? NT 3.51 and 4.0 had full tiered memory protection. Then in
> Win2k (NT 5.0) they gave driver access to the kernel for GPUs, and
> reintroduced massive instability yay.
> 
> The Windows 2/3/95/98/Me series had no notable memory protection between
> user and system.
> 
>> What the EU forced Microsoft to do was to DOCUMENT the kernel so that
>> people could more reliably get third-party access.
>> --scott
> 
> The EU is *mostly* doing things right on tech regulation legislation
> these days. I'm watching them box Apple in for aggravated bad behaviour
> at the moment, which is good fun - although I really don't appreciate
> alt (ie Facebook and Epic) app stores on my nice secure iThings.
> Fortunately I get to choose not to install them.
> 
I think that last sentence is the key point of the EU laws, giving the 
users the actual ability to say "No."


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