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Re:New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become Internat... by tannhaeuser on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:45AM (#21006562)
> The code was the standard

That's emphatically not what a standard is about. Standards in the field you described were developed over many years by proprietary Unix vendors (including BSD as descendents of the original TCP/IP stack), enshrined in POSIX/SUS (also published as Open Group and ISO standards), and then implemented on Linux. Apart from early RedHat stuff such as PAM and things like LSB, it is only since about 2005 or so that Linux dominates the market by de-facto implementations rather than standards (such as bash, Docker-style containers based on Linux namespaces, etc.)

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Re:New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become Internat... by jrumbut on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:54AM (#21006665)
Of course that's not what a standard is about, but I believe it's what happened for technologies during the time that standards fell off.

I identified 2009 as about when you expected de facto open source implementations instead of any talk of standards but I would buy 2005 as well. Obviously it's a fuzzy boundary.

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