that's shit. I really think that's got the cart in front of the horse.
I don't see the market leader(s) doing that, to make something saddled
to a standards group is a reminder of why LINUX beat FreeBSD.
Standards are what allow Linux to have had even a chance to be here in the first place. If it wasn't for open standards, the Internet wouldn't exist in it's current form - all we'd have is AOL & Compuserve with their proprietary formats, and anyone wanting to compete would have to be constantly reverse engineering to be able to interoperate at all (as you can see in the word processor market, where Microsoft changes its file formats every release, and everyone else wastes a ton of effort reverse engineering in order to be compatible). And even the "market leaders" of Microsoft and Apple participate in standards groups such as the IETF and W3C.
The original post pointed out that the image formats used by NX weren't as useful as they could be, because only NX supported them - the solution to that is to get everyone to agree to include it in a standard - otherwise, it will remain something that you can't use with everyone else's software.
> Linux followed a standard that a genius created and made it happen.
Actually, Linux started out following the POSIX standard that a standards group created to make sure all UNIX-like OS'es were compatible, so that all the existing software like gcc, emacs, X, etc. for those other OS'es could be used on Linux. Without that, Linux would probably have gone the road of BeOS - an interesting concept that never really caught on since it had few useful applications.
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