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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:50:11 +0200
From:      dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cue images
Message-ID:  <20040627215011.GA26845@nagual.st>
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On 27 Jun Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> Jeremy Faulkner wrote: 
>> What international standard describes their format?
>> Windows is not a standard.
> 
> Many times a de-facto standard is just as important/valid as a "real"
> standard.

That's precisely what M$ is aiming at. It's just a wrong attitude. A
standard is a standard. "de-facto" does NOT equal "standard" The fact
that a program can handle those non-standards is cool, but that's it.

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