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Now why is this? Well, there’s one possible theory, which is that just as Xerox is really in the business of selling toner cartridges, Sony is really in the little dongly power-supply business. | Now why is this? Well, there’s one possible theory, which is that just as Xerox is really in the business of selling toner cartridges, Sony is really in the little dongly power-supply business. | ||
Another possible reason is that it is sheer blinding idiocy. It couldn’t possibly be that could it?” | Another possible reason is that it is sheer blinding idiocy. It couldn’t possibly be that could it?” | ||
:— Douglas Adams | :— Douglas Adams}} | ||
In the same vein as Douglas Adams, {{author|W. Edwards Deming}} writes<ref>{{br|The Essential Deming}}, ed Joyce Orsini, Ch. 7.</ref> coherently about the value of commoditised public standards: railway gauges; fork-lift pallets, containers — which between them just make the world’s life easier. No single solution is perfect — undoubtedly some advantages accrue to having wide gauges, and some to having narrow gauges, but ''neither confers as much net benefit as having everyone on the same gauge''. | In the same vein as Douglas Adams, {{author|W. Edwards Deming}} writes<ref>{{br|The Essential Deming}}, ed Joyce Orsini, Ch. 7.</ref> coherently about the value of commoditised public standards: railway gauges; fork-lift pallets, containers — which between them just make the world’s life easier. No single solution is perfect — undoubtedly some advantages accrue to having wide gauges, and some to having narrow gauges, but ''neither confers as much net benefit as having everyone on the same gauge''. | ||
The dear old [[European Union]] was un-idiotic enough to regulate a public common standard for phone chargers in 2009<ref>https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_09_301</ref> | The dear old [[European Union]] was un-idiotic enough to regulate a public common standard for phone chargers in 2009<ref>[https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_09_301 press release here].</ref> | ||
We humbly submit, operating on the same unmediated gut instinct that propels many of the [[JC]]’s strongest convictions, that those who try to make ''proprietary'' interfaces that should really be ''common'' — nodes; intersection points on a distributed network; utility crossings where everyone, bar a gate-keeping [[rent-seeker]], would benefit from transit without friction — deserve a special place in hell. | We humbly submit, operating on the same unmediated gut instinct that propels many of the [[JC]]’s strongest convictions, that those who try to make ''proprietary'' interfaces that should really be ''common'' — nodes; intersection points on a distributed network; utility crossings where everyone, bar a gate-keeping [[rent-seeker]], would benefit from transit without friction — deserve a special place in hell. | ||
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