Anonymous Reader writes “The Thirty Years’ War was long and dreary and mostly pointless, but in the end, some good came out of it: the Peace of Westphalia. The UNIX wars were also long, dreary, and mostly pointless, but much good came out of them too. As compared with other operating system standards — which are often highly volatile at best or non-existent at worst — when it comes to UNIX, the elements are so mixed in the documentation that Nature might stand up and say to all the world ‘This is a standard.‘”
Link: ibm.com/developerworks
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