http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/index.php/blog/freedom_week_in_cambridge1/

It's a measure of a free society that one may parade such conceits to undergraduates. Another would be their general acceptance. Yet another would be military expenditure as a proportion of GDP.

> I pointed out that the choice was not between planning and a chance outcome, but between a society planned by the few from the centre, and one in which individuals each planned their own area of it, then interacted to produce a spontaneous order.

isn't that like different developers using different coding standards (maybe even languages) and then having a wonderful time building 'spontaneous order' at integration time?

it would be if societies were like software.

software teams are like social groups. naming convention have  little to do with computers and much to so with human to human communication.

I heard it refered to as "branding" this morning.

Which gets us even closer to Denman's "coke vs. pepsi" claim.