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I am very much against restrictive systems. But standards compliance is a sort of restriction on the apps the user can run. If you make the standards stricter

by Peaker 15y ago

I am very much against restrictive systems. But standards compliance is a sort of restriction on the apps the user can run. If you make the standards stricter and stricter, you restrict the space of configurations more -- and make it easier to get configurations that work together.

slowpoke 15y ago
The difference is that nobody forces you to comply to standards. If you want to hack around on your device, install third party software, concoct your own APIs and drivers or patch the kernel, nobody can stop you (and shouldn't be allowed to, either). While you can argue that a restrictive system is a sort of standard as well, you are forced to comply to that standard with no alternative, and that's bad. Besides, standards, at least open ones, are usually collaborative efforts of multiple actively involved parties, while restricted systems are controlled by a single entity - which again is bad.