| ▲ | izacus 3 days ago |
| Standards committees being completely divorced from reality of software engineering is why most of the standards are useless. So the question is whether it was actually a loss. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 3 days ago | parent [-] |
| Like POSIX, OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, C, C++, JavaScript, TCP/IP,.... |
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| ▲ | rglullis 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Is there any example on your list where the standard came before the implementation? | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Yes, Vulkan (Mantle was the idea), C (since C89), C++ (since C++89), OpenCL (after Apple gave it to Khronos). | | |
| ▲ | rglullis 2 days ago | parent [-] | | So, no. None of your examples are equivalent to OOXML. The implementations were first opened up and then standardized. OOXML was the other way around: Microsoft had a standard and tried to enshrine into a standard and force others to waste time and resources to be compatible. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Only if you ignore what was standardised in PDF form and only later made available on existing implementations. That is why I explicitly made references to specific versions as turning points, as I expected the usual FOSS advocacy replies. |
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