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What is POSIX? Richard Stallman explains

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What is POSIX, and why does it matter? It's a term you've likely seen in technical writing, but it often gets lost in a sea of techno-initialisms and jargon-that-ends-in-X. I emailed Dr. Richard Stallman (better known in hacker circles as RMS) to find out more about the term's origin and the concept behind it.

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mbaehrlxer ·
this is interesting. i knew that GNU had a relaxed attitude towards POSIX, but i thought of it more as a "GNU is better than POSIX" attitude. i had no idea that a number of POSIX features were inspired by GNU, nor that the name itself was coined by RMS.

"Wait…that's GNU-specific… isn't it? Oh—not anymore, apparently."

greetings, eMBee.

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