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Re:Douglas Adams's Mac IIfx by RyanZAG on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:11AM (#7094553)
Um, have you ever seen a WinXP box with anything but 'allow all' for every permission on every file? Running with everything as administrator? Simply having a permissions model is not enough if it's never used. If OSX had everything chmod 777 by default then it would be equivalent to WinXP.
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Re:Douglas Adams's Mac IIfx by asveikau on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @09:11AM (#7095272)
Yeah actually, I have.

Unfortunately it let you boot from FAT which doesn't have permissions. But if it was using NTFS you would have non writable system files by default.

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