Quote of the Week
“Writing a spec and asking nicely if everyone would implement it gets you nowhere. The only way to get something to stick is to put up a compelling app, and let the market drive a standard. Tech people don’t play nice unless the market forces them to.”
Dave Winer (who “pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting…”) in commenting on building standards for “identity.” I saw part of the quote in a piece about standards for social networking by Marc Canter (MacroMedia founder). I think we are seeing a changeover in geospatial from “asking nicely” (OGC) to market forces doing the pushing (KML). And, of course, it’s worth pointing out, those two are coming together.
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/05 at 07:10 AM |
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