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Oldest trick in the book. It's good to see the tech industry catch up with what politicians discovered centuries ago.
by burgerbrain 16y ago
Oldest trick in the book. It's good to see the tech industry catch up with what politicians discovered centuries ago.
- pohl 16y agoThe use of framing the debate like this in the tech industry is pretty old. One of the most notable examples that comes to mind is how the fledgling open-systems community (the loose collection of competing Unix vendors back in the 80s) kept pounding the pulpit of "standards", and Microsoft countered by propagating the phrase "de facto standard" in the trade rags. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
- SlyShy 16y agoWhy would be it good to see an industry take cues from the least honest profession?
- burgerbrain 16y agoI wrote that with sarcasm dripping from my words, but I suppose it didn't translate.