[sldev] [PROTOCOL] Protocol Documentation
Argent Stonecutter
secret.argent at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 22:13:02 PDT 2007
On 02-Oct-2007, at 22:57, Jason Giglio wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> OK, that conversation strikes at the very heart of the distinction
>> between "Open Source" and "Open Systems".
> Be patient. Projects like libsl and opensim will "keep LL honest".
Like Samba does for Microsoft? Andrew's not forcing Microsoft to
follow their specs, he's chasing their changes.
> It's not unprecedented for an open standard to start out as de
> facto, in fact that's how most of them get going.
Some of them... don't forget, there's a lot of open source projects
that are considered "standards" that are nothing like Open Systems.
But what really bugs me is that when you see one moving from a
documented protocol to an ad-hoc one, that's not a good sign.
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