From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 27 15:07:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05077 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duhnet.net (like.duh.org [207.30.95.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05021 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tv@pobox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by duhnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Duh-2.1.0) with ESMTP id SAA22114Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:04:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: duhnet.net: tv owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:04:06 -0500 (EST) From: Todd Vierling X-Sender: tv@duhnet.net To: Terry Lambert cc: louis@signalpath.on.ca, advocacy@openbsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux In-Reply-To: <199811272232.PAA20989@usr02.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: : > In my experience in the hardware domain, standards favour widespread : > adoption but stifle innovation. : : You mean like FTP, SMTP, HTTP, HTMP, and MIME "stifle innovation"? : : Or do you mean like ELF, DWARF, NROFF, and SGML "stifle innovation"? ``Standards are such wonderful things -- there are so many of them to choose from!'' -- -- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message