Another article that makes me want Wine to run in a sandbox

[Dan Kegel]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:40 PM, James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> You really underestimate the stupidity of people.

I expect that people will do utterly stupid things,
there's no two ways around that, it's human nature.
That being the case, I think there are still opportunities
for providing a safe computing experience without
compromising the user's convenience.
Case in point: the sandbox used by the Chromium web
browser.  It provides a modicum of security without
getting in the way.   I can easily imagine classes
of windows apps, say, games, fitting nicely into a
sandboxed wine environment.  Sure, getting the
networking right would be a challenge, but for at
least casual games, it ought to be quite doable.
The key is to require no user choices -- just do the
right thing by default.  Then the user's level of education
or computer skills don't matter.
- Dan