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On 2025-08-23, c186282 <
c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
"Standards" were NOT coveted back in the 70s and
early 80s. Makers INTENTIONALLY made their HW
incompatible so you'd be STUCK with their stuff.
On 8/23/25 2:02 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
IBM was doing it in the '60s, Microsoft has been doing
it ever since, and others are eagerly following suit.
HTML is becoming a proprietary language, for instance.
The classic game was to say that one should follow publicly defined
industry standards. In computers and communications, these were defined
by ITU and IEEE. The major companies sent their people t the committee
meetings and each of them tried to get the standards to reflect how THEY
were developing the thing, and to require processes that theyhad already patented.
The academics building the Internet did not participate in this process,
but the engineers doing the work went and swapped ideas, and once they
had working code, published open standards before patents could be
filed. We all know how this outcompeted the ITU and IEEE standards.
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