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New International Standard: ISO/IEC 9945:2002

Posted by michael on from the one-posix-to-bind-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ISO/IEC and The Open Group announce international approval of the joint revision to POSIX® and the Single UNIX® Specification. More info here."

2 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Do standards cost to much for the open source? by steveheath · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Open standards are normally cited as the basis of OSS. Closed standards are the problem (see Word format), where there is no way to be sure you are actually going to be compatible. Open standards allow freedom of choice for the app-user, encourage competition on the basis of functionality and are generally a good thing(tm).

    Anyway, the link on the page can be followed to the spec, free registration required.

  2. Excellent by drdink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, I think this is great. Bringing SUS and POSIX together will make things much more portable once people actually meet the standard. The alternative is to have 47,000 different standards that all specify different things and then when you, the programmer and/or user, build your system, you must choose which one you want to meet.

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