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bysammydee ( 930754 ) writes:
Yes!
(Seriously, linux needs a standard base to work off. The current mess is completely untenable)
byJeff DeMaagd ( 2015 ) writes:
I don't think it's for the lack of trying, it's kind of like unifying the world governments, in some ways good, and some ways bad. Everyone has their own preferences and agendas, getting them to unify on anything isn't going to work. It hasn't worked well in the commercial UNIX world, and it looks like it's not going to work for the FOSS UNIX world.
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byBlakey Rat ( 99501 ) writes:
The problem is someone has to lose. Like with the sound systems: you can't "Unite" all sound developers by creating a *new* standard. Now you've just added *yet another* sound system to the pile of crap!
What you instead have to do is pick the best standard, and deprecate all the others.
It reminds me of the W3C trying to fix HTML by creating XHTML. Or the whole RSS1/RSS2/ATOM debacle.
byslarrg ( 931336 ) writes:
The problem is that there s no such thing as the "best" standard. Different circumstances and applications favor one standard over another. What companies like Apple and Microsoft do when they set their standards is definitively choose one standard over another despite the fact that it will not perform in well in some circumstances. But open source developers want to have the best for any given set of circumstances and hence create multiple competing standards. This multiplicity of standards makes the devel
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