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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:46:04 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:10:30PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> wrote:
| On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 10:00:17AM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
| > But what Rik points out shows that right now there is ambiguity
| > BECAUSE OF LACK OF STANDARDIZATION --- because GB is vague at the very
| > best, disk manufactures get to claim nice marketing numbers.
| 
| GiB is not a useful standard because NOBODY USES IT.  When it's in 
| common use, then consider applying it to the kernel, but please, 
| not before then.

This is poor motivation.

s/GiB/linux/

We can all go to using Windows then... Thus is progress made.
-- 
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs@zip.com.au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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