On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 15:37 +1200, Don Gould wrote:
> Programmers in the MS Windows space are willing to go to the end mile
> to 
> just make applications work for the user and don't care whos
> technical 
> foot they stand on along the way.

The obvious riposte to that is, of course, "If we all did that then
standards would be useless."

I hope to head off a bit of sidetracking here, and push the concept of
improving on a standard in an Open way to benefit users as being very
distinct from the pig-headed
I'll-dick-with-this-to-completely-break-it-for-everyone-but-me approach.

Vik :v)


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