Matt Fahrner a écrit :
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In other words: when standard Linux programs are superior to the
> > Posix/Unix standard then to hell with POSIX and UNIX. It is now to
> > them to adopt _our_ standards.
>
> Nothing personal, but I think this is a bad attitude. Not only is it
> exactly what we hate out of Microsoft, who believe their programs are
> "superior" and the whole world should come to them, but it only stands
> to hurt those of us in the trenches. I need POSIX compliance and it has
> been a lifesaver on a regular basis since it was adopted by the majority
> of Unix vendors. Everytime someone jams out a non-standard "better way"
> of doing things my life becomes more complicated, and believe me
> "better" is all relative.
>
> We need more things (and people) that "work together", not less. I'm
> against any tack that increases divisiveness in the industry, which I
> think this would.
>
There is a thing you have to consider:and that is people coming to Unix
are not the only Linux usersa nd also there are more than one hundred
million people waiting to be "libearted" from Windows. I frankly don't
want to acept a thing as standard just because it is in Unix. Ptroviding
tools Unixers are used to is one thing, putting Linux growth in jeopardy
just to please them is another. And as I said we can expect proprietary
Unixes will adopt more and more of the Linux standards just as they dumped
CDE /Motiffor Gnome/GTK. Another point us that many postgraduate Unixers,
trained on Linux so they find annoying to have to adapat to proprietary
Unixes while people of the old Unix guard are dying, retiring or moving to
higher rank so their relative numbers are dwindling even on AIX., Solaris
and the like. This socilogy shift is one of the reasons there are hints
about most vendors will linuxify their proprietary systems.
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