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We debated that on Jon Taplin's blog given his iPad and Anything Apple enthrallment. Money really shines for some abnd unfortunately, some of them are educators by title. Two points: 1) American educational materials are already captured by the fact that few publishers supply that market and they are thralls of the Texas School Boards which are their biggest market and very conservative. Enuff said. 2) and back to the barn, it is critical that we keep our focus on open data resources for education, that is, remember why we do XML and what this extra effort to markup information buys us. If Apple can't get that into their products, then someone will and a few examples from what Texas does to school curricula will be enough to convince the smarter systems to buy NoTApple. As for those who don't, to put words into the mouth of the Great Gazoo: "Let evolution succeed. Let the dum dums die." len Quoting Pete Cordell <petexmldev@c...>: > Original Message From: <cbullard@h...> >> From my perspective, this was inevitable and what I meant over the >> years of watching the sea changes since the web and muttering >> "welcome to the music industry". Selling digital anything has a >> common core of opportunities for this kind of consolidation and >> controlling the entry of new resources. > > In interesting way to look at it. (I nearly said analogy, but it's > closer to reality than that!) > > What really scars me is Apple's iBooks for schools. A brilliant > concept if it were open, but highly disturbing if one company > controls what a nation's children are taught. > > (But I think I've now moved out of the barnyard!) > > Pete Cordell > Codalogic Ltd > Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML > data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes. > Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com > for more info > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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