[kingdomcome50]

> I’m sorry, but that isn’t really a counter point unless you have some cases to back it up.

My counter example is about exactly as detailed as the author's example. Of course I was being tongue-and-cheek, but clearly standardization has worked in software.

You can toss your example right on top of all of the other failed attempts at standardization. It in no-way supports the conclusion that "standardization" is a problem. Like I said, I agree with the author's argument, but their conclusion is not supported by that argument. There are many failure modes to large projects.

[didibus]

Thank you for bringing that up better than I could.

Author makes no claim to why Tim's approach couldn't work. Instead they bring up other scenarios about different things in different contexts and somehow try to say, see, attempting standardization never works. Except in many cases where it did work, like the internet, like USB, like HDMI, like all SaaS and cloud vendors, like Ruby on Rails, like Scikit, like GitHub, etc.