Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:00:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:00:11 -0500 Received: from mail.pha.ha-vel.cz ([195.39.72.3]:21006 "HELO mail.pha.ha-vel.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:00:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:00:02 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: David Woodhouse Cc: Stephen Satchell , Phil Howard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. Message-ID: <20011223130002.A12678@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011222075342.00c11e00@10.1.1.42>

<4.3.2.7.2.20011222075342.00c11e00@10.1.1.42> <32114.1009104214@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <32114.1009104214@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:43:34AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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". -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/