Re: Down with Canonical - Boycott Ubuntu Spyware

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Alex King <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] However, there is also an argument that
> tollerance is another way of achieving the same end.  This is the UNIX
> philosophy, accept a wide variety of input, and always produce well
> structured, polite output yourself.  In this way we can have a
> community that is more diverse, more uncomfortable at times, but I
> would argue can work equally as well or better.

In practice Postel's Law, aka the Robustness Principle, has its own
problems. It can be good to explicitly check for and enforce adherence
to standards so as to avoid widespread non-compliance.

See rfc3117, especially section 4.5. (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3117)

Keith

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