OCD programmers and backwards compatibility :-).

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> "Linux in general" would be better off if programs didn't have to 
>> know about a
>> special layout just for Linux..  Remember, most of the apps we user 
>> aren't written
>> specifically  for Linux and calling your layout LSB sounds about as 
>> likely as
>> calling your character set ASCII in terms of getting any kind of  
>> universal
>> agreement.  Why not try to make things the same across the *bsd's, 
>> Solaris,
>> OSX, etc. too, if you are going to have to deal with the problems of 
>> changes
>> anyway?
>
> LSB as many folks have pointed out before is not tied to Linux kernel 
> despite the name. It is all open standards and nothing prevents other 
> Unix and Unix like systems from being compatible with it.
>
So who's following?   Or does everyone have the "we don't follow 
standards, we
make them" attitude?  Does anyone have compatible names for the same 
devices?

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  Les Mikesell
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