There are no trustworthy standards bodies.
@tqbf @matthew_d_green The process of moving towards standards matters even if the standards bodies and participants can't be trusted.
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@tqbf@matthew_d_green I'd rather live in a world where things generally interoperate than locked to one party's products/protocols/etc. -
@RichFelker@matthew_d_green Cures are often worse than diseases. -
@tqbf@matthew_d_green Oh no, here goes the anti-vaxxer of standards... ;-) -
@RichFelker@matthew_d_green What a weird way to make an argument. -
@tqbf@matthew_d_green This is twitter. You can't really make nuanced arguments in 140 chars. But you can make witty remarks... -
@RichFelker@matthew_d_green Standards are sometimes-necessary evils. But the process is invariably awful. -
@tqbf@matthew_d_green As imperfect as Unicode is, I'm damn glad we still don't have random mixed 8-bit codepages. - 4 more replies
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