alt Hacker Newsokay, i think i understand where the winner gets to control supply chains
i have to say the ascii, feet, and knots were a bit confusing though. these do not seem to be the same kinds of "wins" as what we're expecting to see with this race though. utf8 is mostly the default around the world and airbus is a serious competitor in international markets.
>these do not seem to be the same kinds of "wins"
America to this very day gets to dictate how computing and aviation work. Knots, feet, ASCII and so on are just the obvious signs of that.
>utf8
Case in point, UTF-8 (aka Unicode) has ASCII as its starting point. ASCII can be converted to UTF-8 without data loss easily and perfectly because the first entries in Unicode are literally ASCII mappings. This is the virtue of winning first and getting to write the rules.
>airbus is a serious competitor in international markets.
And yet everyone outside of China and Russia still fly using knots and feet, that includes Airbus.