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Originally Posted by xpander
Standards are definitely for everybody to be used, otherwise they wouldn't really be standards to begin with.
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I do not know who said it or when but...
If you follow standards (stepping on\following other people's steps) you will never leave a trace of your own.
There are so many different standards for the same thing.
I am quite sure the one that all have agreed upon for the time being is the unit of time. Other than that you've got plenty of different standard units for space, volume... etc. If we were to look at it in historical context, things could get pretty crowded.
Anyway. Those are more related to Physics.
If we look at
Music and Art in general, even the technical aspects of those arts... talking about standards and "how we should conform with those" is cringe. It is detrimental to creativity and pushing things forward to change, to be new.
There have been so many conventions made during the centuries as "standard", which... are just pathetic (in Music fundamental development that is).