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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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