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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Svid a standard?
Message-ID: <623@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 14 Apr 88 13:55:34 GMT
Organization: BBN Laboratories, Cambridge MA
Lines: 13
Summary: NFW

>... actively incompatible with the standard
>interface ("standard" meaning the /usr/group standard and the SVID -- real
>standards -- ...
The only thing that makes the SVID a standard is the unmitigated gall
of AT&T in calling it such.  A series of books written by a single vendor
does not a standard make.

Were honesty more valued in the marketplace, vendors would be saying
	we conform to the SVID guidelines
and those that have signed a Release 3 license would be saying
	we conform to the SVID requirements
    /rich $alz
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