POSIX bashing

[Donald Lewine]

In article <15645 at smoke.brl.mil>, gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|> (Of course, NIST went
|> ahead and mandated it in the FIPS.  They always seem to think they
|> know better than the technical committees who develop the standards.)
|> 

NIST was specifying what the customer wanted.  Options in POSIX 
allow customers to vote with their dollars.  I would not buy a
system without job control for my personal use.  i don't want to
buy one with my tax dollars either.

POSIX technical committees can create all of the options that they
want (look at .4).   Buyers are going to want to put them in.  In
the end, POSIX will create profiles in the same way that Detroit 
created "luxury option groups".  Buyers are not willing to deal
with all of the options.

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