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

2010-03-21 Thread 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

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

2010-03-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Herouth Maoz wrote: For example, if you standardise on a document format for spreadsheets, e.g. ods, you basically hurt software that represent data in an innovative way (for example, I used to use a spreadsheet program in which the data was in small grids, and these grids were connected by