Hi Dianne,
You make a great point - I do mention in the talk how Xenix was Unix
compliant, and Euler went through the entire POSIX certification
process. I think that we need a baseline to support portability for all
the operating systems, but it seems that the Government of Canada wants
to focus on software licensing/Open Source Software (given all the
policies, ex. “4.4.3.12 Ensuring open source software is encouraged, and
where used, contributing to the communities whose work is being
leveraged.” https://www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=32601).
Honestly, I don't dislike that approach but it definitely sucks/will
suck for a few organizations.
-Katie
On 2025-02-12 18:15, Dianne Skoll via linux wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:02:23 -0500
Katie <katie [ at ] herricane [ dot ] ca> wrote:
It's interesting that you say that! I would also like insights about
the rationale behind this particular decision [to remove POSIX from
its standards and policies---dfs] (otherwise it seems like cancel
culture as Dmitriy identified).
We have to be careful. Certifications can be used as weapons. For
example, AFAIK there is not a single Linux distro that is
POSIX-certified. So demanding POSIX-certification for UNIX-like
systems would disqualify Linux.
I seem to recall that MSFT had a short-lived "POSIX Subsystem for
Windows"
as a way to meet the POSIX requirement on paper. So for a while, we
were in the position where Windows could claim POSIX certification
while Linux couldn't.
Regards,
Dianne.
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