• To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>
• Subject: RE: WSIO vs. Semantic Web
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:51:10 -0800
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: WSIO vs. Semantic Web

> I blame Steve Ballmer.  When I talked to Festa I had just heard
another
> one of Steve's rants about how XML and Web Services were bigger than
> the Internet, bigger than the PC, bigger than God, etc... Sigh.

Actually, I didn't find the quotes by XML people to be an issue; that is
just people having opinions, which is a very healthy thing.  What
bothers me is when the reporters covering these things oversimplify and
make it sound like there are two armies facing off.  In xml-dev, people
have opinions all over the map; there is no way that the community can
be categorized so simplistically into these two supposed camps.  I would
think of it as just silly reporting except that I have seen too many
times where people read about some "war" and start thinking, "hmm, what
side am I on?", and feed the polarization that never really existed in
the first place.  That sort of Zoroastrian journalism always annoys me
:-)

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