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- From: Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>
- To: Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:27:45 +0100 (BST)
On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Dave Winer wrote:
> >>I occasionally hear claims that "they just don't understand", but I think
> there's something a lot deeper than that going on.
>
> Yeah, it's the other way around.
>
> Look at Napster, a fire raging in the market, and they're not even using
> XML, at all.
>
> A totally hacked up binary-and-text format, but it has huge momentum.
>
> Elegance and completeness and premeditated best practices have nothing to do
> with it.
>
> Apps drive markets, as they always have.
Try "Apps drive innovative new markets...". Marketing tends to drive the
older markets, unfortunately.
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