28 Feb
2012
28 Feb
'12
7:10 a.m.
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
It's probably the same reaso nthat British and
European standards
docuemts are very expensiv (I was told the full set of standards for the
'kettle plug' connector would cost be well over \pounds 1000).
No, the reason for that is to exclude competitors from the marketplace. A
full set of telephony standards costs millions of dollars, and that's not
including the national variants that are almost exactly the same but have
some small bit tweaked to make them incompatible. If you're part of the
manufacturer's cabal, you're on the committee that writes the standards
and you get free copies. If you're a startup trying to break into the
market then $*&% you.
Alexey