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Paoli: Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communitiesPaoli: Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communitiesPosted Apr 16, 2012 10:23 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Paoli: Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities by Cyberax Parent article: Paoli: Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities
I don't really understand the matter of 'inttypes.h'. No? Rilly? Most libraries had some kind of compat typedefs behind #ifdefs for _ages_. And these definition are sometimes incorrect and sometimes conflict (if you want to use two such libraries), they must be included in all the new projects, too. IOW: it PITA. Small one, but still a PITA. The same as the lack of support for “z”, “t”, “ll” (along with Having a standard header would just mean a bit fewer compat typedefs, that's all. Well, that's the whole purpose of standards, right? You can support anything without them by using bunch of ifdefs (runtime checks in case of dynamic languages like JavaScript). Just like you can deal with VML/SVG split by using something like Raphaël. It's so minor that I haven't even realized it's a problem for anybody. Well, it's minor, I'll grant you that. Still cumulative time spent because of it is measured in years: each particular project spent day or so fighting it, but most projects are affected. In a sense it's symbol: Microsoft could easily add these headers (few days of work of a single person), yet it stalls for years. If it feels that it's beneigh its dignity to implement such a simple, much requested things (take a look here, for example) then what hope is there for something more complex? Microsoft participates in standards activity in the hope that everyone else will implement these standards. But as Microsoft is concerned standards most definitely don't apply to Microsoft in any shape or form… sure, if some standard is implemented exactly as Microsoft is envisioned it then it'll be standards compliant, if it's changed (like happened with SVG or OOXML) then, oh well, it's not Microsoft's problem. Other companies and people understand that standards are not the goal in itself, they are means to the other goal: to make interoperability possible. Microsoft understands that, too, and explicitly refuses to cooperate. For Microsoft standards are all about PR: some people at the bottom may foolishly work with standards as any other company but if they become too successful then guys from the top interfere and stop such activity.
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