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I think it is precarious to call these political decisions rather than business decisions. If I'm deciding to return despises as JSON, XML, or both I am making
by reilly3000 11y ago
I think it is precarious to call these political decisions rather than business decisions. If I'm deciding to return despises as JSON, XML, or both I am making a decision about:
1. Cost to maintain one or two formats
2. Cost to develop one or two formats
3. Benefit of having multiple formats
And some subsidiary questions like:
1. What tooling is availabile for the formats?
2. What will make my customers/consumers happiest?
3. Will this have impact on how many integrations with my service get built?
These are business decisions and are reducable to financial terms. To say political is to assume that decision makers are not able to make rational decisions based on economic metrics or chose not to analyze decisions on that level.
I know not every decision make by people under various pressures are done with proper diligence/information, but shouldn't we try to frame things as they are?
- icebraining 11y agoThis is when you know a political view is really embedded in a society: when decisions made under it are assumed to be apolitical. A "financial decision" is completely political. It's underlined by a view about who should bear costs and who should reap rewards. Converting to financial terms means that supporting a certain format brings certain costs to the provider and provides certain benefits to the users (which can be charged). How do you decide if it's worth to implement it? Some organizations will maximize revenue, but that's definitively not the only option, and the choice is political.