The Importance of Having Standards
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| The industry in which I work is not the most technically minded. In
| fact, many people in my business regard the internet as strange and
| frightening. For the worst cases, finding the "On" button on the PC is
| a real achievement. This relative lack of computer savvy has led to some
| acute symptoms of technical backwardness; a leading example has to do
| with open standards for information transfers. In short, there are none.
| It's not for lack of trying, my firm attempted to lead the way, however
| the initiative was de-railed by one company who held fast to the belief
| that if they control a proprietary standard, that they would make it
| easier to lock in clients. They think by owning the standard, they own
| the customer.
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