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July 20, 2011

#927: Standards

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.