- From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:08:51 -0500
- To: jptxs <jptxs@idt.net>
- Cc: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>, MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>, www-html@w3.org
At 8:27 AM -0500 1997-09-09, jptxs wrote:
>At 02:11 PM 9/9/97 +0100, Dave Carter wrote:
>>Allowing markets to dictate standards is why we are in the
>>mess we are in after all.
>
>and which mess is that? the decline of capitalism? the fascism of red
>china? the destruction of Tibet? the wars in the Mid-east?
>
>what sort of bubble do you suppose the making of standards, coding or
>otherwise, takes place in? sorry to stray off topic to all, but really,
>not bowing to the reality of how this process is carried out is not
>productive.
[snip]
>"...man's greatest labor so far has been to
> reach agreement about very many things and { subtle
> to submit to a *law of agreement*-- { irony
> regardless of whether these things
> are true or false."
> -Nietzsche
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