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Date:      Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:10:55 -0700
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HAL must die!
Message-ID:  <20110316151055.GA88946@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <19840.16752.255942.50511@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103061251530.95312@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <4D7FE8E1.90600@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110315203753.55f1ec3b@scorpio> <201103160925.59230.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <19840.16752.255942.50511@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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Quoth Robert Huff on Wednesday, 16 March 2011:
> Erich Dollansky writes:
>=20
> >  > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
> >  > choose from.
> > =20
> >  when it comes to screwing, we use - at least outside the USA -
> >  metric screws. M3, M4 ... M10 ...=20
> > =20
> >  We do not care much who manufactured them.
> > =20
> >  The software industry is still far away from this.
>=20
> 	... in part, because the definition of a "screw" is not yet
> fixed.
>=20

Microsoft seems to understand the definition of "screw" well enough for
its own purposes.  The rest of us just don't like being on the receiving
end of it.

--=20
Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F
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