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A bit more searching yielded this conversation, from before I started using ROS. I guess this is where the decision was taken, and I guess there will always be room for debate regarding the wisdom of the decision...

https://code.ros.org/gf/project/ros/mailman/?action=ListThreads&mailman_id=8&_forum_action=ForumMessageBrowse&thread_id=44126

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