the Computers and Society AGORA agoo.ra (~.g"g-rg) n. A marketplace in ancient Greece, customarily used as a place of popular assembly. For members of this popular assembly, we invite short, substantive communications tightly-focused around a single experience, issue or theoretical point within the scope of this publication. Standardization, Innovation, and Microsoft The US Dartment of Justice's antitrust litigation against Microsoft defies common sense. It's the type of action that could only happen in Washington, a place committed to unconsciousness as a political philosophy. Whatever their feelings about Microsoft, computing professionals everywhere should recognize that an antitrust case has no public policy merit, based on fundamental and important tradeoffs between standardization and innovation that have been with us since the early days computing. Suppose that you've just moved into the neighborhood, but now there's a new house for sale. It's got state of the art construction and 20% more square feet. It costs a little more, but uses half the energy. Should you buy it? Or how about this: Motor Trend says that the 1999 Trans Am will be more fuel efficient and go from zero to sixty faster than the one you shelled out big bucks for last
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Standardization, innovation and Microsoft
Fagin, Barry
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, Volume 28 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1998
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