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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:04:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        louis@signalpath.on.ca, advocacy@openbsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.05.9811271802100.13280-100000@duhnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199811272232.PAA20989@usr02.primenet.com>

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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:

: > In my experience in the hardware domain, standards favour widespread
: > adoption but stifle innovation.
: 
: You mean like FTP, SMTP, HTTP, HTMP, and MIME "stifle innovation"?
: 
: Or do you mean like ELF, DWARF, NROFF, and SGML "stifle innovation"?

``Standards are such wonderful things -- there are so many of them to
choose from!''

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)


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