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Eric van der Vlist wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:11, Robert Koberg wrote: > >>Eric van der Vlist wrote: >> >> >>>Maybe they are carefully hidden in the member's section, but I have >>>never seen a cost analysis for a W3C (or any other competing standard >>>organisation) decision made in the name of the mythic 80/20 rule... >> >>the easier it is to make money from some tool, the faster the adoption >>of that tool >> >>do you disagree? > > > I don't know (I have never been good at making money), but I don't see > how that relates to the mis-usage of the 80/20 to accept or reject > technical feature requests without any cost and market analysis. Well, the 80/20 rule, while originally thought up by an Italian economists who discovered 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people, has been applied to many other things. In the situation we are discussing (?), it is simply that by covering 80% of the some thing you get to the place you want. By trying to cover more, you usually don't get there. best, -Rob > > But never mind... > > Eric
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