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- Submitted-by: duke@osf.org
-
- Randall Atkinson (atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil) writes:
-
- >I find it absolutely fascinating that you continue to claim that MIT
- >developed Palladium and yet the vast majority of MIT won't have
- >anything to do with it -- including large portions of Project Athena.
- >(We sent someone from NRL up to MIT to survey the Palladium situation :-)
-
- Sorry, it's just force of habit for me to write "Palladium, from MIT's
- Project Athena" so people know where it originally came from.
-
- I don't mean to deliberately confuse anyone here--as far as I know
- Palladium isn't used currently at MIT, and the companies that are
- working with it (DEC, IBM, OSF) are extensively hacking on the source
- available on athena-dist.mit.edu.
-
- >Also, existing practice at one site out of hundreds of thousands is
- >not anything resembling generalised existing practice (which both BSD
- >and System V do strongly resemble).
-
- You have a point, but 75% of the people during our Mock Ballot disagreed.
-
- POSIX has expanded beyond the "only existing practice" rule. Look at
- 1003.4, 1003.6, and the OSI APIs. If you don't like this, your recourse
- is to campaing and vote against it, but if the majority disagree, this is
- the way it will be.
-
- Bob Robillard, 1003.7.1 Technical Editor, duke@osf.org
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 31
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-