RE: [xml-dev] Lessons from the RSS Civil War: The Circle Of Life

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

*sigh* 

Why do you continue to bait this troll? This is probably the dozenth
time I've seen someone point this out on XML-DEV, I'm sure he gets the
point by now. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 4:18 PM
> To: Gerald Bauer
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Lessons from the RSS Civil War: The 
> Circle Of Life
> 
> Gerald, please notice the pattern of naming:
> 
>   C -> C++ -> Java -> C#
> 
> By choosing new names for new things, it is possible to talk 
> meaningfully about the difference between C# and C rather 
> than "Microsoft C" and "Sun C" and "AT&T C" which has a 
> totally different connotation.
> 
> I don't think anybody minds Luxor building on XUL or even 
> keeping the XUL name for the parts that are compatible with 
> traditional XUL. The flamewar is when XUL is applied to 
> random XML technologies that happen to have something to do 
> with user interfaces.
> 
>   Paul Prescod
> 
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