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POSIX is backwards in so many ways. It freezes in time the OS innovations of the 70s.
by jnwatson 5mo ago
POSIX is backwards in so many ways. It freezes in time the OS innovations of the 70s.
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- robertdfrench 5mo agoI have a conspiracy theory, unsupported by facts, that Richard Stallman secretly invented POSIX as a way to get the proprietary UNIX vendors to waste time on something whose only value was to make it easier for folks to port their apps to GNUUUUUUUU/Linux.
- teddyh 5mo agoStallman only invented the name “POSIX”, not the standard itself.
- robertdfrench 5mo agothat's what Big POSIX wants you to think pal