Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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? > Just the opposite. In this case, by providing most users what they expect to find, we are making Open Solaris a more viable alternative for them. > Why do you care whether others make it wrong too? > In this case, "wrong" is a subjective term. What you believe to be wrong, other (not just Sun) have decided is right.
-Norm