Well, adherence to standards is integral to the issue of interoperability, a critical project success factor in this increasingly interconnected world.
And, there's no motivation for vendor lock-in, since the revenue protection motivation (usually!) doesn't exist. (I can tell you re all of the verbiage I've excreted in a prior life justifying sole-source procurements.) Also, possibly important for the devout among us is that the Good Lord must love standards; She made so many of them! AS On 10/16/13, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if I could get some feedback on the following statement, I'm > looking for the other side of the argument (I know it's hard to put yourself > there :c). > > "Open Source software enforces standards" ... <snip /> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss