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I found the following paragraph of the entire article the most
interesting, but also strange that no further comment was made on it.
If for the past two years, two businesses per week
have inquired to the NIST concerning their desire to metricate, that
totals 208 companies. This does not include those that go it alone
and don't inquire. 208 companies may not seem like much, but if they
did in fact go metric that is 208 companies putting their money into metric
resources at the expense of English system resources. They help create a
demand for metric goods and services at the expense of English system
resources.
With big dollar companies like GM, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler,
John Deere, Caterpillar, just to name a few already metric, there is
considerable amount of American money supporting metric industries and their
products. That seems to me to be a victory for metric over the past 30
years, not a defeat like the author is trying to imply.
Back to Ken Butcher's comment, one has to ask why 2 businesses
a week feel there is a need for them to metricate. Who is motivating
them? Who is prodding them? Is it vendors? Is it
customers? For a system that the opponents claim nobody wants there is
just too much activity in favor of metric that some people just are blind
too.
Dan
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