Posted Nov 16, 2012 18:13 UTC (Fri) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678)
Parent article: Quotes of the week
Ironic that the other Jon Masters QOTW in this issue is praising standardization, and here appears to be arguing against...
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I for one do mourn POSIX, and standardization in general. I think it's very sad that a lot of stuff these days is moving forward without going through a rigorous standardization. We had this little period known affectionately as the "Unix Wars" in the 1980s/90s and we're well on our way to a messy repeat in the Linux space.
— Jon Masters
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