Business Success with Open Source

The Importance of Standards

You know the appliance you buy will have a plug and internal wiring that’ll work with the electrical sockets in your home. You know the Bluetooth headphones you bought will work with your smartphone. You know the kilogram of rice you buy at the store weighs exactly the same as the kilogram of rice you bought at a different store last week. You know these things because they’re based on standard specifications (standards) that have been agreed upon by governments and practitioners all over the world.

Standards and Business

Without standards, your company would have a difficult time doing business. Let’s say you’re in the grain industry, packaging and distributing the aforementioned rice to stores for consumers to buy ...