https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335
User trans@michael-skiba.de added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335#c4
--- Comment #4 from Michael Skiba 2009-02-05 15:03:04 MST ---
The fact, that the windows world doesn't use it, doesn't change the fact, that
it is a standard :)
Yes, I know this is an highly biassed pov, but one I hear often "Windows does
it this and that way, why doesn't Linux do it that way too?", because Linux
isn't Windows, in many things it's superior, why not in this case too?
KDE 4 uses it, opensuse had and will have a huge amount of KDE users (in the
past there were more KDE users, than gnome users in oS, I don't have recent
stats, but I think it's the same).
For me that'd be reason enough. The comment "This would be a reason to use
another distribution" is (sorry) just nonsense, why would ANYBODY do that?
This markup thing is just a minor thing, there are many apps which are
switching to that standard and YaST is for sure not the center of the action
for a normal openSUSE user.
But to add some 'hard fact' to the end, the SI units you quoted yourself state
explicitely that the SI-Prefixes, kilo-, mega-, giga- are only to use by the
meaning of a power to ten! not to two.
[QUOTE]
These SI prefixes refer strictly to powers of 10. They should not be used to
indicate powers of 2 (for example, one kilobit represents 1000 bits and not
1024 bits). The IEC has adopted prefixes for binary powers in the international
standard IEC 60027-2: 2005, third edition, Letter symbols to be used in
electrical technology – Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics
[/QUOTE]
(See the right sidebar:
http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter3/prefixes.html - Notice that the
BIPM is the organization that officially maintains the SI standards)
Please also notice that the European Committee for Electrotechnical
Standardization (CENELEC) has published as an harmonized document. Also
wikipedia states that it has been adopted as a European Standard. So it's
legally binding. IEEE points their authors to use correct SI units too. So all
the switchs have been layed out - the only other "important" organization that
doesn't use this standard is Microsoft.
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