On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by > ignorance/release pressure/lack of time/blah/blah. So far, every > Microsoft programmer I've spoken to seemed to try hard. (I'm not saying > they succeed, but I _am_ saying they don't seem a malicious bunch.)
I agree with Arnt on all three of the above points. > We're talking about a set of interrelated documents that are light on > examples and free of a test suite. I'm not greatly surprised that > people have trouble implementing them correctly. We have seen this happen over and over again. The documents are broken. If Microsoft programmers don't care about specs and redefine them as they see fit, then we can say the same thing about the programmers of almost every other SASL server. This is an *extremely* common blunder. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
