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The winning (marketingwise) systems couldn't get sandboxing to work. You couldn't simply download software and run it.


Sure, but back then people were used to downloading and running random exe files (even from really untrusted sources such as torrent sites, eMule, etc.)


imho, there are no trusted sources nor should we need them. One can have a good track record for as long as it lasts.




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