Economic Self-Interest (was: Re: combining: half, double, triple et cetera ad infinitum)

On 11/14/2011 2:39 PM, Naena Guru wrote:
> On the other hand, no company would send people to work at Unicode if
> they did not have an economic interest.

One might as well rephrase that as:

No company would send people to work at *any standard* if they did not
have an economic interest.

And you could fill in the blank for "any standard" with just about any
information
technology standard, or for that matter, standards for bolts, concrete, or
smoke alarms:

http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=36866

Many hundreds of people have been volunteering time now for 23 years to
help in the development of the Unicode Standard. But the fact that major
information technology companies also see it in their economic interest
to assist in the development of the standard, and even more importantly,
to *implement* the standard, is a *good* thing, not a bad thing.

--Ken
Received on Mon Nov 14 2011 - 17:37:33 CST