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There is a lot of secret sauce in protocols. Those decisions can have serious positive/negative implications on performance and features. Making those easily av
by somethingwitty1 6y ago
There is a lot of secret sauce in protocols. Those decisions can have serious positive/negative implications on performance and features. Making those easily available to everyone could potentially destroy a business.
Don't get me wrong, I've had to reverse engineer my share of proprietary protocols to get behavior I wanted (and would have loved to see them be open), but I don't think I can get onboard with the idea that requiring open protocols is trivial or noninvasive.
- lupire 6y agoThe secret sauce in Apple/Google photos is not the API for accessing the data.
- somethingwitty1 6y agoBut we aren't discussing just these specific APIs/protocols (and I haven't look at them, so I'd have to take your word on that), we are discussing this generally.