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On 30-Sep-98 Mark Ovens wrote:
>> NIH was Not Invented Here; you should ask our friends in L* camp :)
> 
> That was the context I saw it in...
> 
> "...I'm quite tired of the totally non-portable
> stuff that Linux perpetrates with its NIH
> syndrome."

I thought so.  Myself, I'm sick and tired of their non-portable
reimplementations of standard interfaces, only for the sake that
they can say that they have defined it themselves.  That's why I
said that one should ask them about Not Invented Here syndrome.

/Marino
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