Re: comedi as a POSIX standard

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Frank Mori Hess wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 April 2003 06:28 pm, Steven Jenkins wrote:
> > It would be quite an achievement for comedi (and open source) to have
> > the comedilib API approved as a POSIX standard. 
[...]
> This seems premature to me.  Comedi hasn't even had a 1.0 release (or better 
> yet a 2.0).  Also, there doesn't seem to be any pressing need since there 
> aren't any competing, 'almost compatible' implementations I'm aware of.

I was in favor of the POSIX idea initially, but I changed my mind:
POSIX is IEEE-controlled, and these standards are not free (as in
beer).

Herman

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Received on 2003-04-10Z04:16:38