Re: Re: Viability of Linux companies

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Arun Sharma wrote:

 |> One more thing, who said POSIX is cannot be revised ? If this call is proved
 |> to be worth it, POSIX may, and will include it in its future revision.
 |
 |POSIX may include win32 similarly. Your point ?

Including/Adding etc is ok... but modifying/corrupting an existing
standard is not.

That is what M$ has done with JavaScript... tried to do with Java ... and
will keep doing any other technology that they can lay their hands on.

Kingsly



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