Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 23:11:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, 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 Message-ID: <199811272311.QAA23213@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9811271802100.13280-100000@duhnet.net> from "Todd Vierling" at Nov 27, 98 06:04:06 pm
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> : > 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
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