Please don't shaft scientific computing users!

I know it was worded the way it was but I'm not entirely stuck on the idea removing those is bad. Some of the awful acts committed in the mid-00s in the name of “shiny” are best left forgotten (and some forms of “just works” too; nobody'll miss ndiswrapper!)

Unix (the abstract ideal people usually talk about) shouldn't be confused with UNIX (sometimes spelled with an ®). I think most here would see ignoring the latter's conventions as a feature, on the other hand I agree with and often design systems according to that list. There are even a few points in there I didn't know about, but was doing anyway...