On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:20 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> > I don't think worrying about the message we send to users is reasonable.
> > We can take responsibilty for the messages we output but punishing our
> > users to teach them a lesson is being actively user-hostile
>
> There is no arguing that MB != Mb;
The whole point of this discussion is, that mostly people expect
MB == Mb = mb == mB, especially if they see weird constructs like kB
used (k for Kilo, or actually Kibi).
> nor is there anything user-hostile behind the idea of doing it the right way.
I was not trying to expose some sinister plan, just pointing out that
users seldom expect that kind of surprise.
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Hannu