{"title":"The consortium in the evolving information industry","authors":"G. Morris","doi":"10.1145/219596.219604","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"■ Before setting up X/Open in the late ’80s, I was not a fan of the consortium as a means of doing business. I considered it, as I am sure many of you did, to be an unnecessary interference in the competitive workings of the marketplace. At that time, long ago, we had all seen consortia in many industries come and go as companies jostled for supremacy, and it was not clear to me how much difference a consortium would really make in the market.","PeriodicalId":270594,"journal":{"name":"ACM Stand.","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Stand.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/219596.219604","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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■ Before setting up X/Open in the late ’80s, I was not a fan of the consortium as a means of doing business. I considered it, as I am sure many of you did, to be an unnecessary interference in the competitive workings of the marketplace. At that time, long ago, we had all seen consortia in many industries come and go as companies jostled for supremacy, and it was not clear to me how much difference a consortium would really make in the market.