Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 03:33:10 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Standardized operating system (was Re: equal pay)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

> [snip good arguments against OS standardization]

Standards are in the same category as laws and sausages.

I described the international standards process to a friend of mine
once.  Full treatment -- took a half hour or so (covered only the ISO
part).  She thought about it for a minute, and said "In other words,
nobody can eat the soup until everybody's peed in it".

Best one line summary I've ever heard.

As a trivial example, "OSI" stands for "International Organization for
Standardization".  English name, French abbreviation.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."