GB>Why don't they standardize something like that?

It is vwery difficult. Concider this, in michosoft there is a carefully
contrioled group of programers developing things. In the Open Source
area it is literaly multi-thousands of disconnected programers arround
the world. BUT that is the beawuty of it all. One is NOT locked in by
the Tunnel Vision of a large corporation.
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