From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 27 15:16:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06014 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05820 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:13:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01839; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:13:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd001817; Fri Nov 27 16:12:58 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23213; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:11:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811272311.QAA23213@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux To: tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 23:11:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, louis@signalpath.on.ca, advocacy@openbsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Todd Vierling" at Nov 27, 98 06:04:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : > 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!'' Rather than unattributed quotes of Andrew Tannenbaum, could you be specific about why you feel that convergence on these particular standards is a bad thing, and cite alternative standards for each, with the restriction that there has to be a public reference implementation available for it to qualify as a standard? Thanks. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message