Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Thomas Lord wrote:
> The most important thing in such a large effort as a complete system
> is the standards:  standards for coding, for documentation, for
> source code management, for configuration, build, install, patching and
> rebuild/reinstall, and uninstall.

Yes, standards is the key to success.

There are probably other areas for standards that could be mentioned 
too. One could for example think about OpenOffice and the struggle to 
implement an open standard for word processors.

I find it hard to imagine that GNU/Linux will not be dominating when 
there are (in a bright future) adequate standards. Before that time I 
find it hard to believe that GNU/Linux can dominate.

This is because standards makes it much easier to build on the work of 
others - and the idea of doing that is at the bottom of GNU/Linux IMO.