On Mon, 19 May 2003, Jim Ancona wrote:
> Jim Waldo has a weblog post at
>
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4840
>
> which, while not mentioning XML, seems to relate pretty well to some of
> our standards permathreads on xml-dev. He writes:
>
> "I can't think of a single standard that was invented by committee that
> has survived in the marketplace. The long-standing standards are those
> that were first de facto standards, and were described (no invented) by
> the standards bodies."
How about the metric system?
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