From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Standardized operating system (was Re: equal pay)
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:12:03 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

You guys are making me soooo hungry.

Oh, and be prepared for a REAL interesting meeting tonight - half the
furniture still can't be sat on.  And if anybody complains, they get to move
one piece.  And if somebody else complains, they get to move TWO pieces.
And if a THIRD person complains, it's four, and if a FOURTH person
does....well, you guys can do math.

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

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."

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