Re: glib uses wrong prefix for base-2 units

[Kevin Fox <Kevin Fox pnl gov>]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 23:10 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> [1] Of course, the marketing departments of some storage media companies 
> arbitrarily decided it could have different meanings in the *same* 
> context too.

I believe those storage companies have been sued and have either settled
or lost. I would then say mostly in the legal system, KB = 1024. If we
muddy the waters by encouraging 1000=KB, we will see more vendor
foolishness, and less legal support for when people are lied to by a
vendor.

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