Re: Ada is getting more popular!

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:00:37 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
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> No, FREE standards! I find it unacceptable when organizations charge  
> money
> for standards.
If the standard is widely used, even when it is for too much fees (for  
someones), there are still workarounds with none-official documentations.  
Look at ASIS specification or the MIDI specification. But true someones  
are more restrictive and may requires you close any web page documenting  
the standard (it use to be with one hardware standard, I forget the name,  
something near to PCI or USB, but not these).

>> Standard protocols, standard languages, standard file formats:
>> if these are enforced in a market, they prevent entrepreneurial
>> attempts at controlling the customers.
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> Yes, they became a vehicle for unfair competition, because the software
> market was destroyed. That does not imply standards are evil. The  
> monopoly
> is.
Does not solve anything, but not responsible for that (I see what you  
mean).

Some standard are as much unavoidable as natural languages. Probably yes,  
this ones are expected to be accessible; in practice, I believe these are.  
Do not see a real trouble there (unless someones witness opposite  
experiences).


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