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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
-
- In article <1992Apr2.234909.18284@uunet.uu.net> stephe@mks.com (Stephen Walli) writes:
- >There is a balance involved between users (wanting the sun and the stars) and
- >the vendors who can build something efficient (that will get you to the moon.)
- >Somewhere in the middle lies reality.
-
- So, the standards drop you into the asteroid belt?
-
- Seriously, a good standard (one that canonicalized proven principles)
- serves as a platform for further development, while a bad standard
- (one that locks users into inferior technological solutions) serves
- to stifle innovation. In the opinion of many, several of the newer
- POSIX standards fall into the latter category. And they cannot just
- be ignored, because both users and vendors have made advance
- commitments to adhere to any and all such standards. Thus even bad
- standards leave an indelible mark on computing.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 69
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