On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:14:28PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I'm not saying ICQ or AIM are quite as complicated as X, but I am saying > > that feasibility in principle is a far cry from feasibility in practice. > > This is why I am concerned about risk of enslavement to "practically > > proprietary" protocols, especially when proprietary interests try to lure > > you into it by distributing the client side as widely and freely as > > possible, but keeping the server under lock and key. > > When you have a client under GPL, you have documentation for the > protocol in terms of source code, and you should have all you need to > write something to communicate with it from the other end. Not necessarily a complete one. Are you telling me you could deduce the entire X protocol definition document by looking at one client? -- G. Branden Robinson | To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to unlearn branden@ecn.purdue.edu | old falsehoods. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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