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- From: Terry Laskodi <terryl@tekcrl.labs.tek.com>
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- In article <661@longway.TIC.COM>, cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier) writes:
- >
- >Why would any vendor feel "punished" because they can't meet some
- >standard? I imagine there will be lots of OS's that can't meet the
- >standards fully....but why should they feel punished?
- >
- >POSIX is not likely to impact your sales much, would it?
-
- If you sell to the federal government, then yes, sales probably would be
- impacted a GREAT deal. Have you ever read the requirements for a fed bid on a
- software project? Not a pretty sight. The specifications are just vague enough
- such that (in UN*X, anyways), one scratches one's head and says "well,this spec
- could probably be met by <insert-appropriate-un*x-command-here>".
-
- Hopefully, POSIX will reduce the amount of paperwork required for specs
- quite a bit (hey, we can dream, can't we???).
-
- Terry Laskodi
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- Tektronix
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 100
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