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- From: Bill dehOra <wdehora@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:55:10 +0100
>This is the argument I have a real problem with. If the W3C is closed
>simply so that the member organisations can get a "leg-up" over, say,
>someone wanting to implement an open source equivalent of said
>specification then something is really wrong with the system.
The W3C is closed since you have to pay to get in.
>How can this
>situation end up with anything *but* competing implementations, rather
>than interoperable, compatible implementations?
Surely that's because the W3C isn't in the implementation business?
>> Simply, the internet is not and never has been, free.
>
>Maybe you got there after I did. I remember a pretty free
>internet, when companies didn't even know what the internet
>*was* (and I'm not even very old!).
I don't remember a free internet. I remember an internet I didn't think I
was paying for, but I know better now. Subsidised maybe, not free.
-Bill de hÓra
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