Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:33:08 -0500 From: "Zane C. B-H." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20120604233308.25183995@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> In-Reply-To: <4FCCD919.2080502@digsys.bg> References: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com> <20120601121555.GF5335@home.opsec.eu> <4FC8B67D.5090208@digsys.bg> <31DFBF41-37EC-43CF-A555-2D4E46F1F6E2@ee.ryerson.ca> <C2524FC6-5575-4573-84A3-AA35768B0648@digsys.bg> <BABF8C57A778F04791343E5601659908236C1B@cinip100ntsbs.irtnog.net> <4FCCD919.2080502@digsys.bg>
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On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:49:45 +0300 Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> wrote: >=20 >=20 > On 04.06.12 18:04, xenophon\+freebsd wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > >> stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Kalchev > >> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 12:42 AM > >> > >> I really see no reason why your 'mail or calendaring server' > >> should be able to wipe your devices.. This is the sort of bloat > >> that keeps me away. From Microsoft products. > > I don't think that's fair to say. Email/calendaring seems to be > > the only connection point between a smartphone and an > > organization for at least the current crop of devices (although > > I'm sure that at some point soon, you'll be able to include > > organizational file servers as well). >=20 > Again, what does your e-mail or calendaring service have to do with=20 > wiping your device clean?? Wiping the device is task for your > device management platform, which does not belong to the e-mail or > calendaring platform. If you connect your desktop to Exchange, is > it supposed to be wiped too? What if the Exchange account is just > one of the many e-mail accounts you use, as typically is the case? It is part of the protocol, Exchanged ActiveSync, used by Exchange based mobile devices. > >> In this regard I rather prefer the way Apple handles things. > >> Shiny wrapper interface to pretty much generic technology. No > >> reinvention of the wheel and experiments to see if it can be made > >> square. > > You can't damn Microsoft for being too proprietary in one > > paragraph and then praise Apple for its openness in the next. > > Does not compute. >=20 > I don't care how proprietary an proprietary thing is. If it is > correctly implemented, it is ok, if it is not correctly > implemented, it is not ok. Microsoft's "wipe trough Exchange" is > weird, to put it mildly. Apple too had a track record of doing many > proprietary things, but in recent years their offerings are, as I > mentioned earlier, pretty much generic standard and widespread > protocols with a lot of sugar coating. =46rom a enterprise perspective, it makes sense. Lets say a device goes missing, it allows one to wipe it the next time it calls home. The usefulness of such a feature is better disconnected from the debate of proprietary v. non-proprietary though, given the different nature of both issues.
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