What were they thinking

One of the things I like about UNIX,Linux, et. al. is that I can play with programming. I can, as an unprivileged user, write or get source code, compile and run it. Any code that does not need access to privileged resources will work and will not alter the system.

Now RedHat has released Fedora 12. What new features? An unprivileged user can install system wide software from a signed rpm package.

An unprivileged user can alter the system. This is VERY BAD NEWS.

SOAP XML WEB Services

Really. Who thought this was a good idea?

Especially the specific implementation I'm in the middle of. I do NOT want to write anything in C# for .NET. In fact, I'll build everything from scratch if I have to.

Unfortunately, my favorite languages have very limited SOAP support libraries. So I'm going to build a bunch from scratch if I want to or not.