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Nicely said. When a small contingent decides for of a larger contingent, the larger contingent does not readily accept the decision, esp. when delivered condescendingly. A Bloody Sunday (Jan. 9, 1905) eventually yields a Bolshevik revolution which eventually yields a Perestroika which eventually yields a... Buy-in is very important. Grassroots efforts seem to get buy-in easier than top-down efforts, but everyone knows that, right? Right? Mike -----Original Message----- From: Mike.Champion@S... [mailto:Mike.Champion@S...] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 3:18 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: is that a fork in the road? > -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 5:25 PM > To: Simon St.Laurent; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: is that a fork in the road? > > > > So I am really missing your point. Change seems > inevitable. Will it be ad hoc or planned? I'm trying to think of successful examples of "planned" change. I can think of all sorts of plans that went nowhere commercially viable and were blown away by "ad hoc" innovations ... X/Open, OSI Networking, Ada, DSSSL/HyTime ... the Soviet economy. Someone please offer counter-examples to undermine the hypothesis that "planned change" mainly tidies up ad hoc innovation, then gets over-ambitious, bloats up, and ultimately rots.
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