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The "King James " translation of the Bible was a committee work.... neville black -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fitzgerald [mailto:mike@w...] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:35 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: Polemicism Matthew.Bennett@f... wrote: > Would you not agree that this list (and the human experience of artistic > endeavour generally) is testament to the notion that fine works are almost > invariably the work of individuals, and conversely, the work of teams is > usually mediocre, at best. Painting, sculpture, and novel, yes; architecture, no. > Most of the truly insightful software I've > encountered was authored by one or two; most of the lousy software was > written by corporate teams. Isn't the plethora of inane 'standards' around > XML evidence that it's doomed to rest in the latter category? True. I've seen that, too. Software or data standards become true standards based on, I think, two key factors: wide acceptance by the masses who care and implementability by engineers. Big money can trump these factors, however. Mike ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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