[anonymousiam]

It's "better" for the application, but not necessarily better for the whole system, or the users. I'm sure it makes perfect sense from the (selfish) application developer point of view, but it goes against the philosophy that defines the roles of the OS vs. the applications.

[tptacek]

That's not engineering, that's just religion.

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