> I agree that an x86 only view of the world is stupid. hardware platforms > are becoming more meaningless all the time. However, I do belive that it > is worth thinking of "free" standards independantly of "comercial" > standards. Sure we can adopt the commercial standards if they are good > enough and we are free to do so, but if they suck we should go ahead and > make our own. The free software community is large enough now that we can > make our own standards, and even sometimes make the comercial world follow > us. I'd like to second this. Standards are definitely worth having. But not when they consist of inferior technology "handed down" to us from commercially-dominated organizations in which we have no representation. The nice thing about standards is that you can pick and choose which ones you are going to support. (I have no opinion on the /etc/init.d stuff though) Cheers, - Jim
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