[SystemSafety] Fwd: Re: Making Standards available to Standards Committees

Derek M Jones derek at knosof.co.uk
Sun May 8 15:59:48 CEST 2016


Peter,

 >> On 2016-05-07 19:58 , Derek M Jones wrote:
>> There is only a problem if you put up with bureaucratic capture
>> that is the norm of all standards' organizations.
...
 > On 08/05/2016 14:35, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> No programming language has IP protection issues of the sort I just described. The substance of a
> programming language is syntax and semantics, and if neither of those is completely public then the
> language won't work.

A classic case of Stockholm syndrome:
"... hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings 
toward their captors,"

-- 
Derek M. Jones           Software analysis
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