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Why 90 percent of XML standards will fail

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:41:53 -0800

Supposed to be on ZDNet somewhere, but I saw it on Yahoo.  The guy's
right, of course, but remember Theodore Sturgeon's Law of Popular Art
Forms, which extends nicely to XML (or any other) standards; it says:

 "95% of everything is crap".

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010226/tc/why_90_percent_of_xml_standards_will_fail_1.html

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