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I like some of the ideas behind Gemini, but I'll never get onboard with something made by an individual and not actually standardized by a reputable standards b

I like some of the ideas behind Gemini, but I'll never get onboard with something made by an individual and not actually standardized by a reputable standards body. BDFL type software will only end up not being accessible to some people and not thinking about concerns that aren't important to the one or two people controlling it (even if a larger open source community develops around it; it's still largely controlled by the person who set the initial direction and did most of the work initially with no collaboration or cooperation from others).

RodgerTheGreat 5y ago
Could you provide an example of a standards body along the lines of what you would accept which is not primarily comprised of and funded by commercial interests?
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- SamWhited 5y ago
  This is a bit of a straw man; many (most?) standards bodies aren't driven by commercial interest. I agree that there are some that are (3gp, probably wc3 though I'm not super familiar with them I just hear people complain about that as a problem all the time), but many if not most are almost entirely volunteer or have a more mixed way of doing things (ie. the within the IETF plenty of companies put their people in the bigger working groups, but also many volunteers who aren't affiliated with a company driving the work are also a part of them or completely control them). Others take an absolutely-no-company approach like the XSF who only allows three people who work for the same company to join and requires all members to be acting of their own accord and not on behalf of a company. Sure, some standards bodies have a problem with commercial interests, but it's not the big problem your question implies.
enos_feedler 5y ago
Getting to the point of being stamped by a reputable standards body is something that comes after experimenting in public for a while in a non standard way

RodgerTheGreat 5y ago

Could you provide an example of a standards body along the lines of what you would accept which is not primarily comprised of and funded by commercial interests?

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SamWhited 5y ago
This is a bit of a straw man; many (most?) standards bodies aren't driven by commercial interest. I agree that there are some that are (3gp, probably wc3 though I'm not super familiar with them I just hear people complain about that as a problem all the time), but many if not most are almost entirely volunteer or have a more mixed way of doing things (ie. the within the IETF plenty of companies put their people in the bigger working groups, but also many volunteers who aren't affiliated with a company driving the work are also a part of them or completely control them). Others take an absolutely-no-company approach like the XSF who only allows three people who work for the same company to join and requires all members to be acting of their own accord and not on behalf of a company. Sure, some standards bodies have a problem with commercial interests, but it's not the big problem your question implies.

enos_feedler 5y ago

Getting to the point of being stamped by a reputable standards body is something that comes after experimenting in public for a while in a non standard way