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Are Standards Groups Stifling Innovation?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blowing-off-steam dept.

cpfeifer writes "Jim Waldo expresses a a controversial viewpoint in his blog: "Common wisdom, especially in distributed computing, says that the right approach to all problems is to use a standard. This common wisdom has no basis in fact or history, and is curtailing innovation and rewarding bad behavior in our industry. " He also goes on to clarify his position and explain his reasoning."

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  1. Alternative to standards.... by zanderredux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .... use interfaces instead. Tie up your systems with a tool like Vitria, SeeBeyond, Microsoft BizTalk, pay some $600k+ on licensing fees and configuration and make some systems integrators happier!

  2. Neat-o by waldoj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, that guy has my name as his last name. Weird.

    -Waldo Jaquith

  3. Re:Common widom... by EinarH · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Shopkeeper: Sorry sir. We don't use grams here. We use flogborts.
    Respect. You just created a new (and kind of funny) word that Google hasn't heard of. Congratulations.

    You deserve a flogbort of cheese for that invention.
    May the new flogbort-standard of weight rule the world!

    --

    Melius mori in libertate quam vivere in servitute.

  4. Not to complain or anything... by solarrhino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... but how exactly is this "flamebait"?

    --
    "Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest that I am hard to turn" -- A Scots-Irish prayer