Jean-Marc Liotier

"API contribute to better interoperability. Open source provides various degrees of freedom to do whatever you want with the software. Those are two orthogonal dimensions. The main result of the widespread availability of web APIs is the commoditization of the software services exposed that way. That is a benefit for the consumer, but a different benefit than those provided by open source." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Do we really have that much control ? Language spreads along cultural influence. Diversity in language provides insight into social history and a wealth of interesting information about patterns of thought. But lowering the barriers to communication may be even more valuable. And anyway – when social groups form, they always form their own language too… So I’m not worried about languages dying and forming : it is the natural ebb and flow of cultures that manifests itself in this way." - Jean-Marc Liotier

<blockquote> I’m concerned that dilution of Google’s admin standards in the federation servers field over the long term will erode Google data security.</blockquote> When you use Gmail, are you concerned by the dilution of Google’s admin standards in SMTP servers ? That is the beauty of federation : each user gets to chose the server whose admin standards he favors – and all get to interoperate !" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"In Paris, the reference point of the whole French geodesic system (in front of the Notre dame Cathedral) is a common consensual position. Maybe this ancient system also provides a good reference in other cities, which would explain its resurgence in modern mapping applications. I like the idea of probing mental models through the simple device of asking where the center is." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Why all the bad vibes ? As the saying goes, “be strict in what you send and tolerant in what you receive”. I suffer daily people with 30 lines signatures who ignore quoting and use the most horrible Outlook stationery, but I don’t complain and keep sending properly quoted messages in a sober attire. I enjoy plain text because it is the lowest common denominator that works even on the least functional display across the slowest and lossiest link. And plain text makes proper quoting more coherent across multiple users in a thread. But I silently deal with HTML too – most of the time I’m all tooled up to render it painlessly, even in Mutt. Sometimes HTML is painful (horribly slow link or horribly limited display) but such bad conditions are a marginal use-case nowadays. I even admit sending HTML mail occasionally – tables are so much easier in HTML than in ASCII artful ways…" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Certes c’est une pratique répandue depuis longtemps, mais jusqu’à maintenant j’avais eu la chance d’être client d’ISP qui n’avaient pas encore cédé à la tentation. Si les anglophones habitués de ces questions ont pu suivre ce débat depuis quelques années, le grand public Français est moins au fait – alors cet exposé me paraissait utile, même si la pureté technique d’un service grang public n’a évidemment aucune chance face à une source de revenu…" - Jean-Marc Liotier

Au suject du controle de DNS, sans savoir les details c'est difficile de juger, mais sur le sujet je suis assez partagee: d'un cote en tant qu'utilisatrice au courant je deteste, parcequ'en general soit c'est une faute de frappe et le recherche ne va pas m'aider, soit le site est indisponible et je prefere voire l'erreur en detail. Et aussi je sais que tout cela est lucratif - des... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

"Aucune idée, mais je crois plutôt que je ne suis pas le seul que ça a choqué. Inliner m’a passée ton URL cette après-midi… Il est plus rapide que toi !" - Jean-Marc Liotier