On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 16:51:37 +0200 Lucio De Re <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > standards aren't laws. there's no moral component at all. > > Politics (insufficient resources) can put moral components into > anything. But most technical standard organisations do aim to avoid > making the type of short sighted judgements that lead to resource > depletion. Then the market comes along to create artificial shortages > so as to increase value, giving politics the opening they seem to be > waiting for. Looks like technical standards organisations viewed sysadmins (or web site admins) as underworked and overpaid, on this particular issue. I think it was some overpaid dick with a persuasive mouth pushing his favourite idea of OS-enforced file types.
