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- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- To: xml-dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:56:12 -0500
>As a developer, I've often been burned by wasting time
>investigating a tool that supposedly supports some
>particular standard or protocol, only to find after
>investing time and effort that the tool does not
>live up to expectations. I take this very seriously.
>I'm too busy to waste time sifting through the claims
>of dishonest vendors to determine if the tool really
>meets my needs.
Amen to this sentiment.
I don't know about other folk but this is one of the main
reasons I participated in standards work at all: to define
a *reliable* foundation upon which to build... and to
make *global* interoperability a possibility.
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