[clug] Your Best arguments please

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:53:01PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2003, Antony Wuth <ajw at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Require 3 separate / independent implementations of the protocol / data
> > format.
> 
> This is slightly silly.  You just banned
> 
>  - Ogg Vorbis
>  - TeX
>  - Postgres and MySQL 
>  - rsync (twice)

I think one could argue that that's a good thing in this case: rsync
is a fabulous program, but it's a pretty lousy wire protocol (in terms
of being suitable for independent reimplementation).

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