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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 7 Apr 2008 12:24:45
Message: <47fa4acd$1@news.povray.org>

> Even with the need to make some adjustments, there is still a basic 
> standardization to internals, and commands. Windows new shell even 
> borrows the later, in a form of Bash like shell, since their own sucked 
> so badly. lol Look at cars. While there isn't much of a standard, and 
> not *every* part is interchangeable any more between makers, you can 
> still manage to weld together bits from different cars and have 
> something that still functions, and you can take parts from dozens, and 
> use them to build a car that "none" of the manufacturers would produce 
> themselves, and odds are, despite some specific differences, and a few 
> adaptions, most of its isn't going to flat out refuse to work right 
> because you plugged a Ford transmission into a Mitsubishi motor, in a 
> Chevy frame.

Forget interchange of parts. With cars, if you learn to drive, you can 
drive any car of any manufacturer. Doesn't seem to be the case with 
operating systems, or with applications.


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