• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Paul T <paul@p...>
• Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:50:08 -0500

Paul T wrote:


> All those committees, smart, reasonable and important 
> people  on one hand - and just one Finnish student on 
> another hand. This is the way it goes and this is the way 
> is always was before, I think.

Huh?  If you mean Linus Torvalds, as I suppose, one of the reasons
for the success of Linux is that Linux is very Posix, probably more
Posix than any other Unixoid (because it didn't need to support a
pre- and anti-Posix installed base).  In general, free software
tends to be more standards-compliant.

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