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Re: Web Philosophy
- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:12:21 -0500
At 10:48 AM 3/27/01 -0500, Ann Navarro wrote:
>But Martin, that's not nearly as much fun as being the public curmudgeon ;)
Anyone who thinks 'being the public curmudgeon' is fun hasn't tried
it. Maybe masochists would find it fun, but I think the rest of us don't.
>I actually find it quite sad that a few people that would be of value to
>the process refuse to participate even on an invited expert level because
>they wouldn't accept the confidentiality constraints of participation. A
>loss to both sides, I believe.
On the bright side, more W3C activities - notably protocols and the recent
Semantic Web work - are operating much more in public. Looks promising,
though it's early yet.
Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
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