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