In article <4C6724B7.3090908 at softjar.se>,
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
Almost all companies got the gender wrong on their
equipment.
That is telling you something about the standard. If
everyone's getting it wrong, then the standard has a bug.
Standards should make it easy for people to do the right thing.
If a standard comes out and everyone consistently gets it wrong, then
the standard is at fault, not the people.
Standards should acknowledge human nature, not pretend that humans are
vulcans.
[...] many couldn't figure out what a DTE and DCE
was.
More testimony to the standard being buggy.
It doesn't help that these two different roles differ in their acronym
by only a single letter that sounds almost identical when pronounced
out.
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