- From: Mike.Champion@S...
- To: xml-dev@l...
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 18:17:35 -0500
Title:
> -----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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