From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 19 21:58:53 2002
From: Ryan Cumming <ryan () completely ! kicks-ass ! org>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:58:53 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103247274905407

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On September 19, 2002 14:52, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> Just to be a bit sarcastic:
> it seems to me more obvious that the producers of discs/network devices
> have had there a bit influence to have some legal background for their GB
> values ;)
> Perhaps 1000 is better than 1024, but I am not sure if the reason for that
> change was that "idealistic".

Oh, there is no doubt that the disc drive market switched to true SI units 
primarily as a marketing ploy. The point is to align ourselves with accepted 
metric units, not the greedy mass media corporations. ;)

- -Ryan
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