Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Norm Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Your argument there is with the open source community. It's the
>> ImageMagick open source project that chose the name "compare" for their
>> program. Yes, we did choose to place it in /usr/bin along with the rest
>> of the ImageMagick commands, but there was a reasonable expectation that
>> we would do so when we integrated it into Solaris. Remarkably, this is
>> how it's been done on other open source operating system distributions.
>> The fact that /usr/bin/compare on other open source operating system
>> distributions comes from ImageMagick must be lost on you. You may not
>> like it, I may or may not like it, but that's simply how it is.
>>
>
> Are you working on preventing OpenSolaris from being a working alternative?
>
Just the opposite. In this case, by providing most users what they
expect to find, we are making Open Solaris a more viable alternative for
them.
> Why do you care whether others make it wrong too?
>
In this case, "wrong" is a subjective term. What you believe to be
wrong, other (not just Sun) have decided is right.
-Norm
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