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		hkphooey on April 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools How will Apple respond, if at all?! Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be an open protocol... never happened. AirDrop is yet another closed protocol. XPC is a new protocol for sandboxed processes to communicate with each other, it's basically distributed objects. Again, a secret even though things like CORBA, Java RMI, etc. have been around for years.

cgh on April 5, 2014 [–]

You are talking protocols vs code. Let me know when MS opens up AD, SMBv3+, etc.

bunderbunder on April 5, 2014 | [–]

A fair bit of it is here, including stuff for Active Directory (though I don't know enough on the subject to say whether any bits are missing) and SMB3: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc216517.aspx

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