• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@f...>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 03:59:32 -0500

On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 21:24 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
> I've come to think that, in the long-distance rear-view, one of XML's
> biggest legacies was moving Unicode from a fringe thing to a place
> where
> there was a huge contingent of developers who'd been forced to think
> about
> it.

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".

People had been using netbsd for firewalls, but it was a special
purpose application, not part of infrastructure.
> 

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