Standards vs. Innovation (was: Sending & receiving SMS in linux)

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:03:17AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> Innovation is, sometimes, hindered by standards, but, then again, the  
> opposite can also be said - lack of standards also hurts innovation.  
> Take any monopolistic Microsoft product as an example of that.
>
> All in all, as long as the market is relatively competitive, things tend  
> to sort themselves out.

If you want to make yourself buzzword-compliant:

IC: Innovation Compatible

  http://lwn.net/Articles/379551/

:-)

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