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- From: tneff@bfmny0.uucp (Tom Neff)
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- In article <515@longway.TIC.COM> Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.hp.com> writes:
- >I believe that standards encourage innovation. Clearly there are others
- >who don't, and I'd like to suggest that they think about it again.
-
- Standards purport to encourage innovation by providing a stable
- consensus on which to build, but by nature they also had to bulldozer
- PRIOR innovations to be born in the first place. The worry is that new
- innovation, however "encouraged," will be similarly bulldozed when the
- next standards committee comes around.
-
- It is not EXISTING standards that exert a chilling effect on programming
- creativity, but FUTURE ones.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 31
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