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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
-
- In article <558@usenix.ORG> std-unix@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >Standards let the government avoid vendor-specific requirements like
- >UNIX or SVID. ...
- >The Government has a burning need for a standard, they find it
- >politically unacceptable to use UNIX System V as that standard, ...
-
- I have to challenge this often-heard (from DEC, for example, who don't
- want truly open systems in the first place) rationale. In fact there
- have been more than one major (in the billion-dollar range) federal
- acquisition where SVID conformance was specified, and that specification
- was successfully upheld in appeals. Thus the government's official
- position would appear to be that SVID is an acceptable standard.
-
- Note that SVID is not the same as AT&T UNIX System V implementation,
- although there is clearly a relationship between them. (But there
- also is between UNIX System V and POSIX, ANSI C, etc.)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 148
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