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Re: Why Standards?

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• Subject: Re: Why Standards?
• From: Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@e...>
• Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:27:59 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 19 May 2003, Jim Ancona wrote:

> Jim Waldo has a weblog post at
> 
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4840
> 
> which, while not mentioning XML, seems to relate pretty well to some of 
> our standards permathreads on xml-dev. He writes:
> 
> "I can't think of a single standard that was invented by committee that 
> has survived in the marketplace. The long-standing standards are those 
> that were first de facto standards, and were described (no invented) by 
> the standards bodies."

How about the metric system? 

// Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@s...>

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