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   Re: [xml-dev] The Best Technologies Don't Win

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On 7/10/06, Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@intergraph.com> wrote:
[snip]
> "they" (what the phrase "The Web" means), it is.  If we step away from
> that bit of arrogant humility, we realize that local cases make it
> imperative to respect different approaches because at some point, a user
> will be in that locale and design arrogance will make them fail or even
> get them killed.
[snip]
> Ask the Italians and the French this morning about keeping cool, or any
> matador that bowed to the crowd with his back to the horns of the
> challenge.

Can I just ask, what is "arrogant humility", and what do Matador's
have to do with the Italians or the French?




 

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