Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:00:02 +0100
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:43:34AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> list@fluent2.pyramid.net said:
> > Look, I agree that there is significant merit to KiB et. al., but the
> > marketplace has not always selected that which is best. That's the
> > nature of the marketplace.
>
> The marketplace selected Windows.
>
> If you are more interested in the choices of the marketplace than in
> technical correctness, one has to wonder what you're doing on this mailing
> list.
Well, I always assumed Linux was supposed to "work damn well", not
"be technically correct".
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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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