Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:04:05 -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>

Michael Walsh wrote:
>
> >
> >"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.
>
> Au Contraire, mon amie!
>
> Not OSI, but ISO:
>
> English website: International Organization for Standardization
> (http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage )
> French website: Organisation Internationale de Normalisation
> (http://www.iso.ch/iso/fr/ISOOnline.frontpage)
>
> OSI is the initials for the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.o=
> rg/)

Pthhhhhhht <--- brain fart

You are correct.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
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