Re: why Target cannot change its mind

["Richard Iachetta" <iachetta@us.ibm.com>]

>>>Weng, the spec making process nowaday is largely a political one.  If
>>>everything in a spec was easy, big companies would not be able to gain
>>>an advantage over their competitors by requiring small companies to
>>>jump through hoops to compete, and the big companies will not back the
>>>spec.  The spec will then die.  It is wrong, but that is the way it is.
>>
>>This is a bunch of nonsense in my opinion.
>>
>
>It may not apply to Weng's posting directly, but it certainly is
>no nonsense. You'll be astonished what a big deal of resources
>big companies spend only to keep small guis - who
>are by definition innovative in our branch - at bay. I don't know
>if they do so just because of the purely economic danger or is
>there also a higher - some might call it political - level of
>anti-small line of behaviour (as Lenin has taught them... too bad
>they were so quick to learn it not only in the East).

What Wen-King is saying (and it seems as though you are agreeing though you
are sort of losing me with the Lenin quote) is that big companies purposely
put certain things into specs, not for any techical reason, but just to
make it difficult for small companies to compete.  I would love to hear an
example of something put into the PCI spec. (or some other major industry
spec. I guess) that was put there for the purpose of making it difficult
for small companies to compete.

Rich Iachetta
IBM Microelectronics Division -- Austin
World Wide Field Design Center
Phone: 512-838-6305   Tie Line: 678-6305