As for it not flying, it will.. Since noone has proposed an alternative, some percentage of people will use it (me, and the linux kernel). It's kinda funny how everyone here has poo-poo'ed the standard, but hasn't even tried to solve the issue other than 'just assume it's this under this circumstance, it's that easy'. This thread along side the North American english one make an interesting contrast.

>As for it not flying, it will.. Since noone has proposed an
>alternative, some percentage of people will use it
>(me, and the linux kernel).

Well, err, that would be me (linux kernel) who first gave it the behaviour of "MB == 1024*1024 bytes". But I do notice some pansy has since then added "KiB" for drive cache sizes..

If you read the article mentioned in the Slashdot post, Eric Raymond (I guess in charge of the linux kernel documentation) did the patch with support from Alan Cox.. Which one of these is the pansy?