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There is a clean bifurcation between just works and Microsoft compatible.
by notKilgoreTrout 10mo ago
There is a clean bifurcation between just works and Microsoft compatible.
- paulddraper 10mo agoWhoa! Did you see where those goalposts went?
- orangeboats 10mo agoYour goalpost already moved from "IPv6 just works" to "IPv6-only just works" though. ;) In all seriousness, I have IPv6 enabled and GitHub works just fine for me. Though at a slower speed sometimes because the IPv4 CGNAT is heavily congested in my area.
- paulddraper 10mo agoIf you count that as IPv6 just working, sure.
- notKilgoreTrout 10mo agoPresumably, they were working before Microsoft came up and they needed to be embraced, extended and extinguished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
- mahirsaid 10mo agoi don't like how these companies dictate standards. It's always the case, but they do spend a great deal of money making sure practices morph into standards.
- m463 10mo agothey figured out the "de facto standard" game... for example: Microsoft Word DOC. Due to the market dominance of Word, it is supported by all office applications that intend to compete with it, typically by reverse engineering the undocumented file format. Microsoft has repeatedly internally changed the file specification between versions of Word to suit their own needs, while continuing to reuse the same file extension identifier for different versions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard