Jay Maynard drunkenly mumbled...
> >
> > this is the worst reasoning i have EVER heard.  we've always cross-threaded
> > our screws, so we will always cross-thread our screws.  just cause that's how
> > it was done it the past doesn't make it right, it makes it how it was done in
> > the past.
> 
> This is, however, common reasoning in the BSD world, especialyl for ideas
> that were invented in SysV. "SysV invented that? No way in hell!"

i'm playing devil's advocate basically to keep this from happening.  i don't
want to see ideas turned down for anything but purely technical reasons.  i 
don't know if it helps or hurts that i'm not much of a programmer, i think it
helps since it give me a different view of things than the programmers.

-brian