Ugh ... a very annoying e-mail thread from earlier this week. For the record, I'm not attacking the other fellow on the other end of this thread. They're just doing their job too.
Company: We noticed in your open-source software that you output X incorrectly. Please look at this other open-source software Y to see how it should be output.
Me: Please look at standard Z. According to standard Z, I'm doing things correctly. Here's the code snippets to show it.
Company: Hmm, you're right. I guess a number of vendors are not properly sending the data in the right format. Unfortunately, we can't get all those vendors to change the format.
Me: Well, how about I add a workaround option on the command line. Those who are knowledgeable of this subject matter can specify it if they want to.
Company: We tried out your workaround option and it's almost correct. A few bytes were flipped in the output.
Me: Huh, that's strange. The first few fields are sent little-endian, but the latter few fields are sent big-endian. This is really weird.
Company: For legacy reasons, it appears large company A has been doing this, so I guess vendors have followed suit.
