Re: The competition

Alan Cox (alan nospam at redhat.com)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 05:49:05 -0400 (EDT)

> They've made at least one important (but common) mistake -- they are
> storing Unicode 16. That's not only a big waste of space, but the only
> platform that's using 16-bit interchange is Win32, and it's anybodies
> guess why they made such an odd decision.

It is odd as the internet standards use UTF8.

> The other mistake they seem to have made is "supporting" only a single
> platform. That's one CPU architecture, one manufacturer, one API.
> Actually, I don't think I could have dreamed that CDDB would screw up
> this badly... our chances are probably better than ever.

Looks brighter 8) Especially if once done someone submits an RFC for it