'lo there > It's strange, isn't it? Not open-sourcing, you 'kena' (talk abt MSFT), > open-sourcing, you also 'kena'. I'm still lost to this way of > thinking.
It's not so strange. OSS is not just a kiddy pool where everyone is splashing around for fun. Have you ever read the Linux kernel mailing lists? Technical choices that affect the entire OSS community have to be extremely well motivated to gain acceptance. If you're going to do something that will cost everyone time to learn and implement, you should have good reasons (not "I'm personally not familiar with it"). Look, I didn't study PB, and my reaction is mostly just to the nature of the announcement, which only compares PB to a straw man (DOM processing of XML), and which doesn't respond to substantive critical comments. PB obviously works very well for Google, and maybe the people who implemented it know ASN.1 backwards. We shouldn't have to take it on faith, though. -- jean . .. .... //\\\oo///\\ _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
