Why should I care what code OTHERS decide to present to the world?
I dunno, because it's executing on your computer?
Except that all of those thing either don't apply to web apps at all, or apply to all web apps. There's nothing to install, upgrade, or fix locally, and you're dependent on some service provider regardless of the status of the code.
That is exactly his point -- and the fact that these limitations can be worked around.
Who tought of that name anyway? Yeah, we have a planet, let's call it "dust", or "dirt". Yuck. We can call it Vulcan (because it has a lot of vulcans, you know, and it had even more so times before) or "The Blue Jewel", or "Water drop", but no, we called it "Dirt".
You mean, besides from the fact that if you install it, your system will crawl to a halt?
No, au contraire. The following policy _will_ guarantee that users will act like adult human beings:
We will take a peep at your files randomly and fire you without severance the first time we find something we don't like. Period.
mount -o noexec
use one of these when nobody else is watching. Problem solved.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson