Comment by frenchy

Comment by frenchy 8 days ago

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Standards are great, in theory, but a standards group can easily be co-opted by throwing enough people and money at it. That's basically what happened with DRM.

mmooss 8 days ago

> a standards group can easily be co-opted by throwing enough people and money at it.

The word 'easily' does a lot of work there. How easy? Many standards work well. The Internet, an incredibly successful engineering project, is built on standards.