swingedseraph

The analogy is flawed.

He did not write a piece of software, he wrote a piece of rhetoric which had very little to do with reality and had a lot to do with making people dislike Google and its policies.

I also write a lot of rhetoric designed to do that. The difference is I'm not a Google employee. Were I, I would fully expect to be fired, regardless of what I did with that writing (except perhaps leave it unreleased on my home computer, or write it to /dev/null).

He did several things wrong, and simply _stating_ that he did not does not make it true.

> and if she were a guy she couldn't get away with it

I think this is untrue. I know a lot of male "sofware engineers" who are totally incompetent and remain well employed.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Kernel security is good, and more kernel security is better. I'm still hoping that Linux gets W^X (Write XOR eXecute) protection like some BSDs have - it eliminates several classes of vulnerabilities at a single stroke.

I like this. It's important for many software people to understand hardware, and even if it isn't (like, you're a frontend web dev and never want to do anything else), understanding different paradigms is very useful in diversifying your thinking.

Do I like this? Yes. Should it be an immutable part of the interface and not configurable? No. That's ridiculous.