Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [OT] RE: UDI and Free Software | Date | 10 Oct 1998 22:26:24 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.19981010141722.A32552@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm convinced that here, coding to _any_ fixed interface will slow down >the fastest network technology of the day. We learn new tricks all the >time, and for the leading edge, we put the effort into applying them. >Only open source has this flexibility.
I think you may be mistaking open source with not adhering to standards. It's perfectly possible to ignore standards and published interface with a proprietary product, just as it's possible for a source-available product to follow standards slavishly. Sure, it's possible to get better performance by ignoring standards when the standards are bad, but this is (a) not a recent development and (b) it's certainly not an `open source(tm)' feature.
____ david parsons \bi/ Who has had to support one or two commercial products \/ where the original developers ignored standard to get better performance, but then skipped town before I could hunt them down and kill them.
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