On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:18:25AM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: > I'm also going to go against the grain and say that most services > don't *need* to be integrated with each other.
I'll join you in that. I'll go one step further and say that in many cases, integration is a very bad idea. Interoperability? Sure. But not integration. I suppose this is because I very much buy into the "Software Tools" philosophy of Kernighan and Plauger: a tool should do one thing and do it well; tools should play nice with each other. That's why, for example, sort(1), cut(1), grep(1), tr(1), and wc(1) are all different tools, even though they could be combined into one -- and why they work beautifully when used together. And that's why, as a counterexample, Exchange is a bag of crap. (To be precise: a *big* bag of crap.) ---rsk -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
