UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V1#112 (NIH)

[Peter da Silva]

> There may be some "NIH" syndrome at work, but you should also appreciate
> that BSD software is not necessarily up to commercial standards, so it
> might need some adaptation before being supported by a commercial outfit.

There's no commercial reason for changing the name of Mail to mailx, or
TURNING OFF the use of '.' as well as '~.' to terminate a message, or
rehacking the terminal driver so V7
programs no longer work, and so on. Like it or no, at the time Bell came
out with System III, THE standard system in the real world was V7. There
is no good excuse for making SIII incompatible with V7. Or for
makeing SV incompatible with SIII.

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