• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@f...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 09:17:49 +0000

> 
> A less obvious one is that XML forced a lot of organizations to accept
> open source code for the first time, and made it become "normal".

They had been using the UNIX and TCP/IP infrastructure for a long time before, but I guess they didn't think of it as open source because it came bundled with the hardware.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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