I've only been in the industry for 4 years, but I think I understand
a few things. I didn't say I expected them to release source. It wouldn't
make good business sense. I just don't think anyone should get the
impression that Mcom committed some great act of altruism by sticking
some binaries on an ftp server.
Consider the alternative: Spyglass has committed to sibmitting its
libwww patches back to the maintainers, for all to use.
>What, not even "a few megabytes of binaries to play with"?
Check out ftp.halsoft.com: you won't find olias binaries, because we
don't think they'd be useful to folks without some other tools. But
you will find binaries for ishmail, a supported product of HaL
Software Systems. We're taking advantage of a cheap distribution
mechanism just like they are.
It makes a lot of sense: if Joe User can ftp the software, then he's
already got a clue and a working TCP/IP stack, or he got the software
from somebody who does. That eliminates 60% of the support hassles right
there.
>Citing RFC822 as a "good specification" is laughable. Its still there
>because is ubiquitous
Hmmm... this seems like somthing of a condradiction to me.
>Creating standards with no real world use beforehand gives us nonsense like
>ADA.............
Agreed.
Dan