Doing "real" work

["Charles E. Perkins" <[e-mail]>]

Hello Michel,

Michel Py wrote:

> This requires teamwork and what we have today is a bunch of people
> entrenched in their positions and unwilling to compromise. If you want
> better tooling, why don't you talk to the whiners that want to have the
> cake and eat the cake?

Doesn't seem to be couched in very constructive language, really,
does it?

>                You know, the same kind of people that wrote a
> "real" operating system or designed a "real" router that managed to
> capture 0.5% of the market but of course is better than the
> implementation that captured 75% of the market.

What if the market were shaped by:
- using questionable business practices to cripple/kill competitors?
- predatory/stupid legislation?  (e.g., efforts to outlaw "French" technology)
- selective failure to enforce existing legislation?
- powerful and misleading advertising?

Does it mean that we should require new sections in every
Internet Draft explaining how the protocol can succeed
by suggesting some clever strategies for misleading
advertising and so on, or how to kill competitive protocols?
I know you didn't want to suggest this.

Maybe you didn't really mean what you said.  It amounts
to "might makes right".

Regards,
Charlie P.