The “weaponization” of accreditation is what gave it away for me. The people who cry foul over this are typically complaining that some hyper-evangelical creationist college can’t get accredited because they insist on teaching demonstrably false nonsense.
Yeah I was going to say the same, this was created by someone with an overly basic understanding of how these things work
Natural monopolies over things like infrastructure and standards aren’t necessarily bad as long as they’re not privately owned nor profit seeking.
For instance, I can’t exactly imagine how a market of competitive standards orgs would even remotely be able to reach the consensus necessary to accomplish the goal of creating standards. It’d just be an endless XKCD 927
Yes, this seems to b the most plausible explanation. Also christian, due to the whole “spiritual salvation” only having the reformation?
competetive standards do sort of exist tho? 🤔 I think both hdmi and usb are standards made within competition. Hdmi forum is most of the competition coming together to agree on a standard. And there is still competition
Oh I’m aware we don’t have one global standards org, but generally at ISO, IETF, IEEE, ITU & IEC are all some that come to mind with some level of shared interest, however I wouldn’t say they act competitively to each other and tend to work collaboratively rather than competitively.
I suppose interestingly, to use your HDMI example, this is kind of what happens when you don’t have a central standards body handling this stuff, HDMI came from the television industry and DisplayPort came from the computing industry. There is no technical reason for both to exist, and one could have been adapted to fill the needs of both and become the one standard if it wasn’t for industry groups ultimately trying to profit (HDMI carries licensing fees and requirements, so does DP to a lesser extent).
I guess you’re right though, I probably should have thought it through a bit more before my last comment
Tbh it’s kinda funny how even within competition it can lead to standards 🤔 but we do on the other hand have old phone chargers before usb even tried to be standard 💀
I never thought about displayport coming from the computing, but yes unlike f.ex Hevc it’s outside of the ISO assorted groups 🤔
This is clearly made by some right-wing libertarian or similar nutcase.
The “weaponization” of accreditation is what gave it away for me. The people who cry foul over this are typically complaining that some hyper-evangelical creationist college can’t get accredited because they insist on teaching demonstrably false nonsense.
Yeah I was going to say the same, this was created by someone with an overly basic understanding of how these things work
Natural monopolies over things like infrastructure and standards aren’t necessarily bad as long as they’re not privately owned nor profit seeking.
For instance, I can’t exactly imagine how a market of competitive standards orgs would even remotely be able to reach the consensus necessary to accomplish the goal of creating standards. It’d just be an endless XKCD 927
Yes, this seems to b the most plausible explanation. Also christian, due to the whole “spiritual salvation” only having the reformation?
competetive standards do sort of exist tho? 🤔 I think both hdmi and usb are standards made within competition. Hdmi forum is most of the competition coming together to agree on a standard. And there is still competition
Oh I’m aware we don’t have one global standards org, but generally at ISO, IETF, IEEE, ITU & IEC are all some that come to mind with some level of shared interest, however I wouldn’t say they act competitively to each other and tend to work collaboratively rather than competitively.
I suppose interestingly, to use your HDMI example, this is kind of what happens when you don’t have a central standards body handling this stuff, HDMI came from the television industry and DisplayPort came from the computing industry. There is no technical reason for both to exist, and one could have been adapted to fill the needs of both and become the one standard if it wasn’t for industry groups ultimately trying to profit (HDMI carries licensing fees and requirements, so does DP to a lesser extent).
I guess you’re right though, I probably should have thought it through a bit more before my last comment
Tbh it’s kinda funny how even within competition it can lead to standards 🤔 but we do on the other hand have old phone chargers before usb even tried to be standard 💀
I never thought about displayport coming from the computing, but yes unlike f.ex Hevc it’s outside of the ISO assorted groups 🤔