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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6


From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () orthanc ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:45:18 -0700


On Jun 11, 2015, at 9:06 PM, Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au> wrote:

You don't get to just say "I'm not going to implement this because I don't
agree with it," which is what Google is doing in the case of Android.

Actually, you DO get to just say that. Anyone can, but especially
something as big as Google. And if DHCPv6 turns out to be important
enough to enough people, Android will lose market share and either fork,
die or change its mind. It wouldn't be the first mobile platform to
disappear into the sludge of history.

Sadly, there is another side to this. Witness how the DMARC crew are destroying the functionality of email as we have 
known it for decades. Sometimes the 800 pound gorillas DO have the ability to fsck things over for everyone.

--lyndon

P.S.  But it is the mindless-sheep-like behaviour that lets them.  So instead I should be complaining to the masses who 
are incapable of thinking for themselves?  We know how well *that* works ...

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