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Anyone can write a protocol though. That's the easy bit. They failed to create a killer product.
by axod 16y ago
Anyone can write a protocol though. That's the easy bit.
They failed to create a killer product.
- buster 16y agoFirst of all, i'd say designing a _good_ protocol is pretty much the hardest and smartest work to do. Of course everyone can design a protocol to send a messange from A to B. But you really think it is something _that_ easy to design a complete protocol for messaging between a wide variety of clients and servers? Take as much as possible usecases and edge cases into account and make it really good? If it would that easy SMTP wouldn't have a big pile of extension RFCs. Everyone can write a website that let's people chat in groups, right? I mean.. really... THAT is easy. ;)
- axod 16y agoI agree with you. Writing protocols, websites, creating new programming languages... all relatively simple. Getting people to use what you built is the hard bit.