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Successful standardization of protocols and formats tend to benefit the entire software ecosystem, both open source and otherwise. Standardization on a specifi
by tveita 10y ago
Successful standardization of protocols and formats tend to benefit the entire software ecosystem, both open source and otherwise.
Standardization on a specific implementation has a greater risk of stagnation, and encourages fragile software relying on undocumented and sometimes unintended behavior.
- snaky 10y ago> Successful standardization of protocols and formats tend to benefit the entire software ecosystem It depends on how good those protocols and formats are. Let's look at OSI protocol stack which is failed miserably on that task exactly.