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 Standards Selection is Vendor Selection
Subject: standards???
Date: 2004-06-24 01:29:05
From: jwenting

" the apparently overlapping, or competing, XML based standards in what we might call the formal news industry, as well as those used in what we will call, by way of contrast, the informal news industry "


In other words, there are no standards but a scattering of competing formats that each claims to be a standard.


One more example of the abuse of the word "standard" in IT.


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