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- Submitted-by: ahby@uinj.UI.ORG (Shane McCarron)
-
- > Submitted-by: lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
- >
- > |> Was the decision of the SEC wrong?
- >
- > Well, the SEC took away my chance to vote NO!
- >
- > Given that no POSIX standard has made it through the ballot
- > process without major changes, the thought of forcing OSF and
- > AT&T to fix some of the larger crocks, has some merit. Also,
- > the thought of both draft standards going down to flaming defeat
- > and generating a published list of objections seems nice.
-
- While I agree with this sentiment, the scope of both PARs was such
- that objections that would cause the interfaces to change
- substantially would have been considered unresponsive! At least,
- that's how I understood it.
-
- > Seriously, I think the SEC made the only decision possible. I
- > don't know why it took 6 hours.
-
- Because everyone had to say something, and because some of the people who
- proposed the PARs really wanted them to go through. There was a lot
- of screaming and gnashing of teeth. Having said that, as secretary of
- the SEC I can tell you that most of the debate wasn't interesting
- enough to be minuted.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 52
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