Hmmm...this was supposed to go out to the whole list, but
I messed up...
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Mike Glover wrote:
> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 17:28:21 PDT
> To: "Grant Kaufmann" <grant@netizen.co.za>
> From: Mike Glover <mpg4@duluoz.net>
> Reply-To: mpg4@duluoz.net
> Subject: Re: On code-sharing and coding obligations
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, "Grant Kaufmann" wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > When other SRS systems connect you
> > up, you
> > get a _sample_ implementation and a spec for how the system works
> > (and the
> > perl-code is plenty good for a spec).
>
> I could not possibly disagree more with the above statement.
> Source
> code is not and cannot be a specification. First, I shouldn't need
> to
> know a particular programming language in order to write to OpenSRS.
> Second, the client source code only shows a subset of the allowed
> protocol, it is not a complete protocol description. Third, OpenSRS
> uses
> an incompatible implementation of the CBC algorithm, which virtually
> forces people to use perl (or write their own CBC implementation,
> which
>
> is what BleachBoy did.)
>
> I wrote a draft of a protocol spec and posted to this list a while
> back.
> I haven't gotten any feedback, so I haven't brought it up since, but
> I'm
> still interested in developing the spec
>
> <rant>
> ATTN OpenSRS programmers: I'm willing to help you do your job FOR
> FREE! All I'm asking for is a little feedback
> and direction (and my name in the credits, of course :->). If you
> let me look at the server source, I'll even help develop *that*!
> </rant>
>
> [snip]
> >
> > --
> > Grant
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
>
> "Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is,
> and
> always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence
> and Satanic cults."
> -- "The Satanic Roots of Rock"
> http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/roots.html
>
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--"Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults." -- "The Satanic Roots of Rock" http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/roots.html
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