xml-dev - Re: (XML is SGML, part 1,002) Re: RELAX to ISO

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

KenNorth writes:

 > David Megginson writes:
 > << other than the ability to get around certain government and industry
 > standardization policies.
 > 
 > Is that really a negligible benefit?

Pretty much, at least in the current economy.  Governments started to
lose their leadership roles in tech in the '80s, with post-Cold-War
spending cuts and the PC revolution, and that role had pretty much
entirely slipped through their fingers by the 1990s.

Governments still make tech policies (and fund lots of pointless pilot
projects), but since the Web came along they've generally ended up
following the private sector, and a couple of years late at that.  In
other words, no matter what policy governments make today, they will
end up doing the same as the rest of us tomorrow.


All the best,


David

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