Re: Pluto & EIB & LInux

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aha ... even so, 'thought it was interesting, they seem to be
well-resourced and to have an approach that seems to be a good one
(http://plutohome.org/) ... I checked
them for EIB, too - they seemd to
have it covered, which was new !

Incidentally, on the subject of EIB, I came across this Linux item:
http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~berndth/eib/
which includes some links to
some interesting papers ...

Chris



Ian Lowe wrote:

>
> Aha! You found our stalker! :D
>
> It's not just us of course, they have been stalking xAP too..
>
> Have a little fun with google - have a search for xPL or xAP Support
> and see
> just about everywhere that someone mentions "does this
support..." in a
> forum post, a couple of days later Pluto arrives with a "Pluto
supports
> this" post.
>
> At one point, they submitted a whole clutch of stories to our postnuke
> based
> website (I even ended up posting one, then read the website and
promptly
> deleted it again!).
>
> In fact, I just checked - they did it on automatedhome.co.uk too:
>
> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=455
> <http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=455>
>
> It seems to be a template forum post with "insert name of
alternative
> here",
> although I'm not sure if it's posted by a bot or by an actual person.
>
> They have a page called "Why DCE complements UPNP, XAP, XPL and
other
> standards?" in which the normal English usage of the word
> "complements" has
> been badly mutilated.
>
> Pluto strikes me as nothing special - pretty much the same as homeseer
or
> xplhal can do.  They bring pretty much zero new to the table but a
> swathe of
> marketing money and effort can get people interested more than a good
> technical solution ever can.
>
> Someone suggested a home brew effort for something or other recently -
> ultimately, I think that those of us who build home brew solutions
> will, do
> so for their own use only. If it helps someone else, that's good and
well,
> but the absolute apathy which people encounter just puts developers
off.
>
> The potential is there to make these great things, but it seems that
users
> expect great solutions to spring fully formed (complete with marketing
> budget and all the bells and whistles) from nothing - not enough
> people are
> interested in the dull bit in the middle where lots and lots of work
and
> testing is done making these ideas come to fruition.
>
> Meh. It's Sunday, and I'm cranky :P
>
> Ian