Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Your argument there is with the open source community.  It's the 
> ImageMagick open source project that chose the name "compare" for their 
> program.  Yes, we did choose to place it in /usr/bin along with the rest 
> of the ImageMagick commands, but there was a reasonable expectation that 
> we would do so when we integrated it into Solaris.  Remarkably, this is 
> how it's been done on other open source operating system distributions.  
> The fact that /usr/bin/compare on other open source operating system 
> distributions comes from ImageMagick must be lost on you.  You may not 
> like it, I may or may not like it, but that's simply how it is.

Are you working on preventing OpenSolaris from being a working alternative?

Why do you care whether others make it wrong too?

J?rg

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