RE: fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116…

>[Standards] are negotiated between parties who accept that the shared space is more valuable than any individual advantage within it.

This crucial detail is why so-called "standards" that attempt to convey individual advantage tend to fail over time, because:

>Cooperation becomes a privilege extended by a third party, rather than a right held between equals.

Cooperation is the domain of equals; coercion, that of the privileged.

>Standards are how a society decides whether its own infrastructure should be owned or shared, whether its past should be accessible or licensed, whether its future should be open or gated.

Well stated. This whole post is worth a read.

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Attached: 1 image What We Owe Each Other, in Millimetres and Volts A standard is a public agreement about how things should fit together. Two words in that sentence carry the weight: public and agreement.

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