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I understand that governments prefer a standard and may want to avoid proliferation and vendor lock-in, but I'm still not convinced this is something that needs
by tims33 4y ago
I understand that governments prefer a standard and may want to avoid proliferation and vendor lock-in, but I'm still not convinced this is something that needs to be legislated. When the next version of USB comes out will we then have to legislate that too?
- mrandish 4y agoYes, this proposal - and more broadly - government bureaucrats legislating technical choices for consumer products is a terrible idea. The problems it aims to address are real but government regulation is poorly suited to multi-national, rapidly evolving, market-driven things like this. There are too many stakeholders with divergent price, capability and performance needs based on personal context and preferences. Similarly, there are thousands of potential solutions and suppliers in a complex ecosystem with near-real-time market signals and multi-layered feedback loops. While free market solutions can have their issues, this is the class of problem where iterative, contextually responsive and adaptive approaches tend to work better than alternatives and top-down, high-latency, one-size-fits-all central planning often makes things worse in hard-to-predict ways.
- hulitu 4y agoWhy do we need a next version ?