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At 02:06 PM 4/1/99 +0000, Clark Evans wrote: >Since market differentation is how companies >market their products, it is not in their best >interest to follow a standard all that closely >anyway. With the current licensing practices, >this should not be new to anybody. It dosn't >matter how good the standard is or how quicky >it is written down. The market mechanism >will force industry practice divergance, >independent of the value provided. I think we've all heard this line before, and I think it's time to stop this train before it runs over anyone else. If I hear the word 'innovation' one more time in defense of ploys that serve the companies using them but wreak havoc on a computing community as a whole, I think I'm going to puke. Too bad the W3C has no teeth. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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