[webteam] vendor lock-in, what the .... is it?

Sander Devrieze s.devrieze at pandora.be
Sat Sep 22 09:10:14 CDT 2007


2007/9/22, Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de>:
> Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> > Can someone justify the existence of this field?  I don't think it's necessary.
> >
> >
> The vendor lock-in field marks projects that allow users only to use it
> with only certain accounts.
> google talk would be the most prominent here.

Then you should choose something else than vendor lock-in: I also
would call vendor lock-in all undocumented extensions to XMPP. I also
would call all documented extensions without any interest and help of
the software project to get them standardized in the future, vendor
lock-in.

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.


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