mark kandianis wrote:that's shit. I really think that's got the cart in front of the horse. I don't see the market leader(s) doing that, to make something saddled to a standards group is a reminder of why LINUX beat FreeBSD.
Standards are what allow Linux to have had even a chance to be here in the first place.
this from the company that has brought us solaris. (cheap shot but I like it)
and as for pOSIX and linux, linux is not limited by the pOSIX standard,
it makes the standard by doing it making it happen. i've seen LINUX move beyond
and do things that posix has yet to endorse but does so it can be LINUX aware.
making something a standard doesn't mean that anyone willl use it? tech is wrecked
with lots of 'standards' that went no where. yeah the internet took off. darpa
made it happen. lots of govt money can make anything happen.
mark
If it wasn't for open standards, the Internet wouldn't exist in it's current form - all we'd have is AOL & Compuserve with their proprietary formats, and anyone wanting to compete would have to be constantly reverse engineering to be able to interoperate at all (as you can see in the word processor market, where Microsoft changes its file formats every release, and everyone else wastes a ton of effort reverse engineering in order to be compatible).
hey wanna buy a standard cheap? i'll sell in on ebay. goes to highest bidder ;-)
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