Re: Viability of Linux companies (Was Re: A Linux Today story has been mailed to you!)

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Arun Sharma wrote:

 |Sorry, JavaScript is not the standard. ECMAScript is.

But ECMA is a recent development.. and anyways JavaScript is more
compliant with ECMAScript than jScript!
(If you download the latest JavaScript manuals from netscape ... you will
see that most of the stuff meets ECMA specs.)

 |> I don't think any of these can be called standards... M$FT openly preaches
 |> the embrace and extend philosophy..
 |
 |Linux uses the clone() system call. This is not in POSIX. Why is it not embrace
 |and extend ?

Linux didn't start out to be what it is today.... so it's not exactly
POSIX compliant... But, doesn't Linux aim to be POSIX compliant someday ??
M$FT always wants to be a standard on/of their own.

Kingsly

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