F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Christopher Stone]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Christopher Stone wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:33:29PM +0100, psmith wrote:
>>>
>>>> but who on earth can press those three keys by mistake? you'd have to be
>>>> dumb, so the data loss point is moot, anyway if x locks up and zap is
>>>> disabled your going to lose the data in a reboot anyway unless you have
>>>> re-compiled the kernel and turned on the sysreq keys
>>> Then I must be dumb. If that's the case, I recommend not running any
>>> software I contribute to.
>>
>> Yes, please give a list so I can be wary of that software.
>
> Then, you might as well as stop running any Linux distribution. Matthew
> Garett code is in not optional in Linux.

Does not compute.  How can someone who is allegedly intelligent not
understand the difference between typing ctrl-alt-backspace and rm?
Both could potentially cause data loss, so why remove one and not the
other?

Maybe mister smarty can explain that to the list?