Quoth Robert Huff on Wednesday, 16 March 2011: > Erich Dollansky writes: > > > > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to > > > choose from. > > > > when it comes to screwing, we use - at least outside the USA - > > metric screws. M3, M4 ... M10 ... > > > > We do not care much who manufactured them. > > > > The software industry is still far away from this. > > ... in part, because the definition of a "screw" is not yet > fixed. >
Microsoft seems to understand the definition of "screw" well enough for its own purposes. The rest of us just don't like being on the receiving end of it. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com
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