On Dec 2, 2006, at 11:13 AM, ivhalpc wrote: > Open standards alone are an artificial separation of code and data > that is un-tenable. Source code without data and data without source > code are not very useful. To be circular: a .odt (Open Document Text) > file without OpenOffice.org is a .odt file without Openoffice.org. > Major thinkers going back to Alan Turing have noted that the > artificial separation of code and data is just that: artificial. It is > like space-time. Time without space and space without time are > meaningless. You can argue with me on this, but I don't think I can be > convinced otherwise. Everytime I hear someone advocating open > standards without or against open source I remember this. > > -- IV
Nonsense. If open standards (such as the IP suite of protocols) were meaningless, we wouldn't have an Internet today. BTW, I agree with you 100% on the point that the separation between code and data is artificial, but that is not the point. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We may with advantage at times forget what we know." --Publilius Cyrus, c. 100 B.C. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
