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[Richard M. Stallman <RMS at MIT-AI>]

You have it backwards.

The purpose of my proposal is to spare other people the trouble
of changing their file systems when I create and start using
a new open keyword.

If other file systems are going to ignore only specific other
keywords, they must be changed whenever I create a new one.

It is not clear what you mean by "time to be conservative",
but if you mean I should simply abandon ideas which require
new open keywords for LMFILE, I refuse.  I am willing to try
to reduce the impact on others, and that is what my previous
message was for.  I am waiting to see whether other people
are willing to cooperate in trying to compromise.  If they are
not, I will quit trying.