Standards, standards, who's got the standards? Nothing new here. Standards benefit the consumer in the form of vendor choice and lower prices. Standards benefit a vendor most when the standard is theirs and other vendors and consumers buy into it. These are often conflicting goals.
I'll argue that common standards are very difficult to establish in a vibrant marketplace and with galloping technological advances, don't last very long.
Open Source, here we come?
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