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

[Devdas Bhagat <dodobh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kingsly John spewed into the ether:
> 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.
Linux aims to be as POSIX compliant as possible, but the attitude is 
that if something can be accomplished in a way better than specified by 
POSIX, then the standard is broken at that place, and that Linux will 
not follow POSIX in such cases.

Devdas Bhagat
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