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Slashdot did an interview with Michael Robertson a while back, and this
was one of the questions asked.  His response was, IIRC, that they
thought it would be too confusing for users to have to enter the root
password every time they want to install software or administer the
system.  A lame response to an extremely stupid decision, IMHO.

-- 
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