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paul@prescod.net (Paul Prescod) writes:
>Then some marketroid decided ot hijack the term and specialize it to
>"XML artificats blah blah metadata blah blah blah". That was a stupid
>decision. Almost everyone agrees that that was a stupid decision. The
>question is whether the W3C should now ratify that decision so that
>people like my wife and your cousin will be permanently confused about
>what computer people mean by "Web Service" or whether the W3C should
>invent a new term so that elite, cutting edge computer people can use
>the term the same way everyone else has been using the term as common
>sense since the mid 90s.
Labeling an Internet product "Web" to get some buzz is like, so mid-90s.
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Simon St.Laurent
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