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What was the consortium? I'd like to read up on it. LCD isn't always a bad thing, as it tends to weed out the niche one-offs.

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Pick one... during the Unix Wars [0] there was X/Open [1] vs Unix International (aka AT&T) [2] and the Open Software Foundation [3] (which eventually merged with X/Open to form the Open Software Group). And then the IEEE got involved with POSIX which ultimately "won" as the lowest of the LCDs. [4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_International [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_Foundation [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

Thanks! Once I moved from University to corporate america, I never looked back at the history of *nix standardization. And looking at these links, I feel awfully naive suggesting another consortium.

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