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Walter, Well the obvious commercial example, sort of is that old favourite: Beta (for which Sony charged a license fee and controlled who could produce media) vs VHS (for which there was either no fee or a much lower one, and not oversight of media producers). On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Andrew Hankinson<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Have a look at the ongoing battles between MPEG4 and Ogg for the browser > video space. I don't know of your second criteria for b), however - not many > people are using Ogg (yet) > > http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/06/ogg-theora-h-264-and-the-html-5-browser-squabble/ > > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5-video-codec-debate.ars > > -Andrew > > On 13-Jul-09, at 12:22 PM, Walter Lewis wrote: > >> Are there any blindingly obvious examples of instances where >> a) a standards group produced a standard published by a body which >> charged for access to it >> and >> b) a alternative standards groups produced a competing standard that was >> openly accessible >> and the work of group a) was rendered totally irrelevant because most >> non-commercial work ignored it in favour of b). >> >> My instinct is to quote the battle between OSI (ISO) and TCP/IP (IETF >> RFCs). Does that strike others as appropriate? >> >> Any examples closer to the library world? >> >> Walter Lewis >