Read Dave Winer's 'Rules for Standards-Makers'
articleRules for Standards-Makers (Dave Winer)
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It is the Bible that we live by within podcasting 2.0 and the namespace development and all the open standard development that we do here at this project.
Episode 61: Episode 61 00:10:18 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave calls Dave Winer's 'Rules for Standards-Makers' the bible of Podcasting 2.0 and its open standards work. Rule one is that interop is all that matters, so users are free to move and products compete on performance, features and price rather than lock-in. Another rule: software matters more than formats.
Not in the audio. The transcript renders the author as 'behave wonder'; the essay is Dave Winer's 'Rules for standards-makers' (scripting.com), as identified in other episodes.