Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu) writes:
> Sigh... People, could we please recall that there is such thing
> as compatibility? Yeah, I know, it's incompatible with the only other OS
> known to most of current users anyway. But there is that thing called
> "other Unices" and there is a long history of attempts to implement The
> Grand New Schemes(tm) - just ask the victims of AIX, etc. Do we _really_
> have to follow this tradition of vendor idiocy?
It all depends on whether or not it makes sense. But I would say that there
would have to be some pretty strong reasons to change - and that doesn't mean
"whoever yells the loudest and/or insults others the most or has the most
insulting pithy comments to make". Sound, rational, logical reasons to change-
or don't do it at all.
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