Le lundi 2 Août 2004 11:26, Christian Brunschen a écrit :
James Couzens, the author of 'libspf', has repeatedly made claims that
the name 'libspf' is 'his' - essentially by virtue that he grabbed it
first, and that anyone else who uses a similar name is 'stealing' from
him. However, that viewpoint disregards that the very name he chose,
'libspf', by virtue of it being so very general is likely to be
involved in many more name conflicts than a more distinct and less
generic name would be; and also that by choosing an 'official-looking'
name he has himself set a precedent that others will be inclined to
follow with just as much right as he has.
[...]
This would solve the whole thing: Neither implementation would look
more or less 'official' than the other (and since neither of them _is_
more official than the other that is exactly the right way things
should be), [...]
Comments? Thoughts? Derision? Personal Attacks?
One of the problems is that James Couzens _claims_ that his libraries actually
_are_ the only "original", "official", etc. implementations. Not only he has
nothing to sustain these claims, but they are basically ridiculous and show a
serious ego inflation problem.
The answer is : Who gives a shit ?
Obviously James invented SPF, he invented SRS, he probably invented C
language, the SMTP protocol, DNS, and some even believe that he invented the
whole Internet just after he finished creating the sky, the sun, the earth
and mankind.
That's why you see crowds currently busy building chuchs and temples for
celebrating the James Cult.
Have you checked the web pages:
http://www.libspf.org/
<title>libspf.org - The Original ANSI C SPF Reference Library</title>
http://www.libsrs.org/
<title>libsrs.org - the Official ANSI C SRS library</title>
What entitles James to his pretentions of being the One-and-Only to deserve
the "Original" or "Official" attributes remains a mystery to me. But
God^H^H^HJames only knows.
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Michel Bouissou <michel(_at_)bouissou(_dot_)net> OpenPGP ID 0xDDE8AC6E