Re: [ICANN-EU] ... and other candidates

[Thilo Pfennig <tp@alternativnetz.de>]

On 23 Aug, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> The market *always* decides. But not necessarily from the alternatives
> we would like it to choose from.

This is a matter of dialogue I think. The market does not want BAD
standards. I think with XML for instance there is a slow but good
development towards a mutual understanding. No developer wants to put
time in a standard which never gets used, nor does any company wants
that.

The main problem seems to me proprietarity and companies like Microsoft
which love to destroy open standards. From this technical innovation is
thrown back. There is nothing to say against competing standards - but
competing in market dominance only leads to confusion, unemployance,
billion EUR of losses and so on...

The industry and developers and users need more trust and sustainable
development of standards. Nonetheless new exciting developments will
allways mix the cards new. Therefore it is so important that standards
and discussions about better and new solutions can be heard in public.
Lacking knowledge leads to wrong decisions and this costs the mioney of
users, governments and companies.

I also believe that Microsoft makes a lot of bad decisions for their
future. But they cannot change their company culture and believe their
own lies. This in fact is most dangerous (believing in ones own lies), 

-- 
Thilo Pfennig, Kiel 
<http://Alternativ.Net/>