Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!guest
From: guest@vu-vlsi.UUCP (visitors)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: standards is standards Re: SQUASHED!
Message-ID: <955@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Jul-87 00:17:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.955
Posted: Sat Jul  4 00:17:29 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 02:38:34 EDT
References: <2290@whuts.UUCP>
Reply-To: 164485913@excalibur.UUCP (Mark Schaffer)
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
Lines: 26
Keywords: ARC, PKARC, squashed, STANDARDS

In article <2290@whuts.UUCP> tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) writes:
>Incidentally, is it not a bit tacky to rip-off another
>person's standard, change it to be incompatible with the
>original, refuse to ensure (through extensions--whatever)
>that no one ever gets burned in the confusion, and *declare*
>your standard is the only good version?

Well, I don't know about this being tacky, but there is another name
for it: progress.  This type of thing happens quite often and I am quite
thankful for it (could you picture the computer industry, or many other
industries, without this type of occurance?)

>(Thought I would ask; techies seem to be somewhat loosely
>connected on business ethics and standards issues when
>faced with Newer, Bigger, Faster, Smaller:-) 
>elses
AAAAAh, true; so true.

 
==============================================================================
| Mark Schaffer        | BITNET: 164485913@vuvaxcom                          |
| Villanova University | UUCP:   ...{ihnp4!psuvax1,burdvax,cbmvax,pyrnj,bpa} |
| (Go Wildcats!)       |           !vu-vlsi!excalibur!164485913              |
==============================================================================

please reply/respond to the above addresses and not guest@vu-vlsi.UUCP