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Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Being standards compliant is not an argument it's a design goal, a 
> requirement. Standards compliance is like pregant, you are or you're 

Linux history says different.  There was always the "final 1%" of 
compliance that required silliness we really did not want to bother with.

	Jeff