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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:04:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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        FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:

: > In my experience in the hardware domain, standards favour widespread
: > adoption but stifle innovation.
: 
: You mean like FTP, SMTP, HTTP, HTMP, and MIME "stifle innovation"?
: 
: Or do you mean like ELF, DWARF, NROFF, and SGML "stifle innovation"?

``Standards are such wonderful things -- there are so many of them to
choose from!''

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)