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The fortune of the commons.

For the first time, the IT industry is widely adopting open standards--thanks to the internet. In 1864, William Sellers proposed a "uniform system of screw threads", which later became widely adopted. Without standardised, easy-to-make screws, Sellers' argument went, there could be no interchangeabl...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 367; no. 8323; pp. 13 - 15
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 5/10/2003
Subjects:
Standardization
Standards
Computer operating systems
Internet
Electronic systems
Information technology
Computer industry
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