From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 16:49:20 CST
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> In <3E67832B.60102@Sonietta.blilly.com>, on 03/06/2003
> at 12:19 PM, Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> said:
>
>
>>That's an artificial distinction; one could just as easily refer to
>>"special-purpose libraries for utf-8" and "generic libraries for
>>messages".
>
>
> One could. One would then have to inquire which of those are being
> included as parts of operating systems and which are not.
One would not _have to_, but one *could*. And closed-source proprietary
implementations that are bundled with an OS aren't of general utility.
Whereas open-source implementations are.