July 20, 2011
#927: Standards
HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE
(See: A
C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)
SITUATION:
There are 14 competing standards.
Geek: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.
Fellow Geek: Yeah!
Soon:
SITUATION:
There are 15 competing standards.