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   RE: Microsoft's responce to XML.com article

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  • From: Bill dehOra <Wdehora@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
  • To: xml-dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:07:32 -0000


:  Not only - I'm talking about reps from paying members; it's 
:  well-known
:  that even if someone is doing a titanic amount of work 
:  editing a spec,
:  when they have an in-house product-release crunch, well, 
:  they're just not
:  going to be doing any editing for a while.  That is unless they're a 
:  "standards drone" a well-known species of engineer who isn't trusted
:  to do any real work but is dispatched to standards committees, found
:  in some but not all large technology vendors.

Are you saying that writing standards isn't real work?

Bill

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