Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:56:28 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Standardized operating system (was Re: equal pay)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

If the treat is "law & sausages" then I suggest calling it a Bismark.

mjw

>>> eginter at klgai.com 04/05/02 03:05PM >>>
Yum. Another tasty treat for WSFA someday.

Erica
whose kitchen would not pass a county health inspection, but then, neither
would that of anyone on this list

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:33 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Standardized operating system (was Re: equal pay)

"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."