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by josefx 1698 days ago
Unix predates POSIX -> All Unix flavors were non standard + your reasoning -> POSIX cannot exist.
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Making it standard is a lot of hard work while you make a lot of people argue and act in a way that makes sure that some part of the thing will work everywhere.

Standards exist on the real world, you can't just define them into existence without doing the work.