On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Dmitry Maluka <dmitrymal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 08:16:37PM +0200, finkler wrote: >> While I agree with usability over standard fetishism, it isn't really >> the case that many Linux desktops are POSIX compliant. > > A little off-topic, but I wish to remind that, generally, standards > compatibility pursuing is not necessarily fetishism. POSIX (or its > hypothetic less sucking replacement) is supposed to assure e.g. that a > user's script will work beyond that user's machine, that's really a part > of usability.
It is supposed to, but in practice it doesn't. Don't confused alleged goals with real results. uriel > >
