10th March 2006, 2:19 PM
Look at the PC and tell me it would breed mediocrity.
Standardization where the standards are "open" result in constantly improved standards as time goes on.
Examples include the ENTIRE PC market, the wide Linux community, and well, pretty much every other standard there is.
There would always be a drive for someone to come up with a new standard to compete with the existing standards, which happens pretty often, and then when accepted it is the new standard.
Standardization leads to good things.
Standardization where the standards are "open" result in constantly improved standards as time goes on.
Examples include the ENTIRE PC market, the wide Linux community, and well, pretty much every other standard there is.
There would always be a drive for someone to come up with a new standard to compete with the existing standards, which happens pretty often, and then when accepted it is the new standard.
Standardization leads to good things.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)