linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

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Date:	Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:08:03 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Eduard Bloch <edi@....de>
CC:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>, Tony Foiani <tkil@...ye.com>,
	Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Schwartz <davids@...master.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

Eduard Bloch wrote:
> * Bodo Eggert [Sun, Jan 21 2007, 11:40:40AM]:
>> 2) No sane person would say kibibyte as required by the standard. You'd need
>>    a sppech defect in order to do this, and a mental defect in order to try.
>>    So why should anybody adhere to the rest of this bullshit?
> 
> You talk for everybody, or is it just your (and only your) mind refusing
> to accept new terms?

I'd say it is the refusal to accept new *dumb* terms.
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Stefan Richter
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