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Neil Williams wrote: > But as we know from the EU cases, it is impossible to delete internet > explorer from current and old versions of Windows. You can delete the > shortcuts but the symbols and the libraries are "a core part of the > OS", supposedly. More like lazy programmers who can't be bothered to > implement a stable API and bone-headed managers who wouldn't recognise > a package manager if it slapped them in the face. I seem to recall that either IE or Outlook Express (or both) are actually tiny binaries, with all but the bare minimum functionality hidden off in the system libraries somewhere. This could of course be so that most of the code is easily-reusable; I'll leave others to decide how likely that is. ;) -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 For years, we have thought that a million monkeys typing at a million typewriters would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Today, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html