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   RE: [xml-dev] Postel's "Law": A question for liberal parsers

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It also means, given viruses etc. in a monoculture, 
that the best protected are the users of "loser" systems.

The network effect cuts both ways.  Weird but so.

len


From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com]

Interested readers might want to take a look at Michael Sperberg-McQueen's 
keynote at Extreme 2002: 
http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2002/CMSMcQ02/EML2002CM
SMcQ02.html
"if network effects are the best predictor, then we must infer that the 
people who actually are responsible for making a good decision are the 
early adopters. In IT, that means you. You have a responsibility to judge 
what matters not by network effects but by technical merit."




 

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