On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 08:16 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 17:45 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: Which brings us full circle to the point that started this thread: Partly by not really and fully following standards when they do not have to, in the hope of locking customers into their goods. This disregard for standards (on the PC side) makes open source development for their products a more difficult task than it need to be.
It just is not that simple. I work every day on solutions involving sync, iCalendar, CalDAV, etc... following the letter of the standard may be ideal but it will *not* result in interoperability. There are gaps in the standards and vagueness that results in entirely legitimate differences in implementation. There are also very real differences in the capacities (and internal data models) between various applications and [especially] devices that the implementation has to compensate for in order to produce what to the end user seems the obvious behavior.
Well, I for one an finished with this thread. Time to get back to work.
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