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From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 5:25 PM
> To:
Simon St.Laurent; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: is that a fork in
the road?
>
>
>
> So I am really missing your
point. Change seems
> inevitable. Will it be ad hoc or
planned?
I'm trying to think of successful examples of "planned"
change. I can think of all sorts of plans that went nowhere commercially
viable and were blown away by "ad hoc" innovations ... X/Open, OSI Networking,
Ada, DSSSL/HyTime ... the Soviet economy. Someone please offer
counter-examples to undermine the hypothesis that "planned change" mainly tidies
up ad hoc innovation, then gets over-ambitious, bloats up, and ultimately
rots.