• To: 'Wendell Piez' <wapiez@m...>, "'bob@w...'" <bob@w...>
• Subject: RE: Postel's "Law": A question for liberal parsers
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:34:27 -0600
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

It also means, given viruses etc. in a monoculture, 
that the best protected are the users of "loser" systems.

The network effect cuts both ways.  Weird but so.

len


From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@m...]

Interested readers might want to take a look at Michael Sperberg-McQueen's 
keynote at Extreme 2002: 
http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2002/CMSMcQ02/EML2002CM
SMcQ02.html
"if network effects are the best predictor, then we must infer that the 
people who actually are responsible for making a good decision are the 
early adopters. In IT, that means you. You have a responsibility to judge 
what matters not by network effects but by technical merit."

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