On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:14:59 -0600, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm a bit confused by your reply. Yes, I kind of see what you mean but >> it also seems I failed miserably to write things clearly. By putting >> "Official" in quotes, I was trying to point out the stupidity of the bad >> corporate decisions that occur far too often. >> >> There are countless corporate idiots which make the wrong choice because >> they like to waive a nonsense marketing banner saying that they are >> "Compliant" with some "official" standard, regardless if there is a >> standardized, completely free, unincumbered and technically superior >> replacement available. Those bad decisions do slow adoption of a free >> replacement (CARP) and in general, affect inter operability of systems >> because they chose to support some encumbered protocol rather than CARP. >> >> I can kind of see how saying their decisions are wrong/bad might be >> limiting but I don't understand how it would give them more power to do >> it again? >> >> I've got this bad feeling that I'm missing something that should be >> totally obvious... please apply the clue stick. > >What did you miss? > >By even using "official" in quotes, and your statement: > >>> Don't misunderstand me, CARP is an amazingly innovative and extremely >>> useful implementation of a redundancy protocol. It's technically better >>> than HSRP or any of the versions of VRRP but the problems till stands >>> that it is not an "official" protocol, which simply means adoption and >>> inter operability will suffer to some degree. > >What are you doing? You are saying that your prediction is that >it WILL suffer in adoption, it WILL suffer in inter operability. > >Keep at it. You might get what you want. Because what you wrote, it >is what you wanted right? > >The problem is there are a whole lot of people who are willing to discuss >the problems their ideas/implimentations face. And it actually does >affect the adoption of our stuff. That's because noone from a corporate >role would every say such a thing. > >So go ahead, be honest. Fight the losing fight. > >The fact is that CARP (+ pfsync + sasync) kicks the crap out of anything >that is standardized...... Got it. It's the ``self-fulfilling prophecy '' thing. Thanks. jcr -- Free, Open Source CAD, CAM and EDA Tools http://www.DesignTools.org
