On 9/10/2012 3:56 AM, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 10 Sep 2012, at 06:19, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > >> While you may fork the code base, you may not fork the AFS3 wire >> protocols. > > This is just not true. There are no internet standards police. In the same > way as anyone can run a service that looks like HTTP, but isn't quite on port > 80, there's absolutely nothing stopping Troy (or anyone else) running a > mutant filserver on port 7000. If you believe that the AFS trademark remains > enforceable, you might get into trouble if you called that service AFS - but > that's not what Troy is proposing
Simon, You are debating the difference in meaning between "can" and "may". Troy is most certainly capable of deploying services that will break existing deployments. He wouldn't be the first one to do it. However, there isn't anyone that is going to give him permission to do so. Jeffrey Altman
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