[ANN] Mac OS X Anti-Metadata Petition
[ANN] Mac OS X Anti-Metadata Petition
- Subject: [ANN] Mac OS X Anti-Metadata Petition
- From: "Todd Blanchard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:40:08 -0800
- Thread-topic: [ANN] Mac OS X Metadata Petition
Brendan writes:
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John Siracusa, contributor to ArsTechnica (http://www.arstehnica.com)
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and Mac OS programmer has started a petition to bring back full HFS+
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metadata support to Mac OS 9 standards or better. Those who would like
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to see improved support to for metadata on Mac OS X are encouraged to
go
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to the site, read the proposal, and sign the petition.
And for those who don't want to relive the interoperability nightmare
that HFS imposes in a multi-platform world, you may express yourself at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/osxnomd/petition.html
Because any mechanism that reduces interoperability with the internet is
a bad one.
And I'll also echo:
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Please, do not respond to this email either on or off-list. This is an
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announcement only. Thank you.