Tridirectional standard
DCT Jared Smith
jared at dctkc.com
Wed Feb 6 14:31:22 CST 2002
Seeing the point that we do not want to emulate Microsoft's top-down or any other rigid standards
approach, yet also hearing the validity of a way to make it easier for programs to
install/uninstall without disturbing the peace of the rest of the system, and also hearing that a
bi-directional standard would ease this, we have found ourselves with a trilemma.
The way out is to build a standard which is really open-ended. Perhaps nothing like it exists now.
What we need is a bi-directional standard, maybe a tri-directional standard, which is really fluid,
and probably invented by Larry Wall.
$.015 (half a cent short of a full brick)
-Jared
>Brian, building and refining on Brad's point, is most certainly
>correct; however, it should also be added that a new system is dead as
>soon as there are standards which are strongly enforced and adhered to.
>Perhaps they have already succeeded in their effort to trim their
>bottomlines, and also to begin to drive away the pioneers from yet another
>frontier. But, once having a taste of freedom, openess, and the utter
>insanity of a 2/1 (distros/blades-of-grass) ratio, I don't think many will wish
>to return to the intellectual oppression of standards. 8^P
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