On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Dmitry Maluka <dmitrymaluka_AT_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
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