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John Miles wrote in message <36354FC1.2AB2@pop.removethistomailme.net>...
>Peter da Silva wrote:
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>> Bill Gates wouldn't have had the opportunity to demonstrate how much he
>> sucked if the US Government hadn't already handed him his monopoly on
>> such things as bogus algorithm patents and a fraudulent FIPS-151
>><snip>
>
>I'll admit that I don't know what a "FIPS-151 qualification" is, or how
>it might affect my life,

FIPS-151 requires government-procured operating systems to be
Posix-compliant.  This is the reason for the Posix subsystem of Windows NT;
it's gets NT on the "OK to buy" list.  However, the NT Posix subsystem only
just barely meets the minimum spec, and is not useful for developing useful
applications.  See, if Posix were used, the app so developed would be
portable to other Posix operating systems (like, say, Linux), and as we see
evidenced in the Sun-vs-Microsoft Java lawsuit, MS often works aggressively
to defeat attempts to produce portable code.

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