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- From: Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.hp.com>
-
- >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.
-
- I can see the point. However, what would you suggest as an alterative?
- Every standard was once or will sometime be a future standard. Without
- standards we get chaos (as eveyone who has bealt with all the variants of
- UN*X knows).
-
- Donn Terry
- (Shooting off just his own mouth/fingers again.)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 45
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