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Got it. I miss-read your thoughts on open standards. So don't require corps to use open standards. But have government develop their own open standards and re
by FrustratedMonky 3y ago
Got it. I miss-read your thoughts on open standards. So don't require corps to use open standards. But have government develop their own open standards and releasing it.
Still think it is a tall order to have wide adoptions of standards without a little bit of a 'stick'. High Definitions TV's wouldn't exist if the government hadn't mandated the change to that standard. A lot of companies resisted it.
Except for a few utopian cases like TCP/IP, I'd be hard pressed to think of any 'standard' that grew on its own without some enforcement.
- ETH_start 3y agoYes, you got it now. Government can subsidize adoption of open standards until they've become the market standard. Even this clunky solution is better than the government assuming a right to interfere with how people use their own private property in mutually voluntary interactions.