[techtalk] RE: [issues] Standards?? PHOOEY!!!

[Fan, Laurel]

[moving to techtalk.  can we please stay on topic here?]

JoAnne Abbott, joabb at uswest.net, said:
> The standards are preventing me from making a 128 bit direct connection
> to a video chip as a innovation. I don't have enough room on the worktable
> for Four motherboards.

No.  You are wrong.  There is no standard preventing you from doing this.
You're complaining that other people's parts won't work with your
"innovation".
This doesn't make sense at all.  Why should other people go out of their way
to support an unproven, and, in fact, nonexistant technology?  I don't
see how eliminating "standards" would help this either.  The only reason you
can't do this is because the existing players have money, market share, and
IP,
and you don't.  This has nothing to do with standards, and is an entirely
different issue.

(And IIRC, this has in fact been done, one example is the Playstation 2)