Should we trust .NET? (was Re: PHP vs. Python/comp.lang.php?)

[Steve Holden]

"Andreas Jung" <andreas at andreas-jung.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1006902434.21898.python-list at python.org...
> In Microsoft we trust !
>
> On good example of "supporting" standards is WebDAV. When WebDAV came up
> some years ago, Microsoft claimed to support this standard. Nowadays
> Microsoft support WebDAV in a way where you can talk through WebDAV
> from MS clients to MS servers. I have spent a long time debugging problems
> between Microsofts WebDAV implementation and other WebDAV servers. They
> violate the HTTP 1.1 and WebDAV specs in many ways, making it nearly
> impossible
> to write compliant server side WebDAV implementations.
>

And can we say "DNSSEC" or "Kerberos", both non-Microsoft technologies for
which MS has provided subtly-castrated versions that do not interoperate
with open source implementations?

regards
 Steve
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