Vendor Sponsored Incompat’y

• Vendors see “owning” a standard as a market share lever

  • Pack standards bodies with shills/lobbyists
  • Deliberate attempts to produce competing standards:
    • SSL/S-HTTP
    • Java/ActiveX
    • SKIP/Photoris/ISAKMP
    • Umpty-zoodle incompatible Ecash systems

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