RE: [xml-dev] W3C Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Last Call Re

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

Nope.  IBM has this same stuff in Irving Wladavsky's blog.  People who track
this for the ISO X3D standard read it and report it.

Sorry, Rich, I respect you enormously, but this is IBM out to take the
cookies and go home with them using Linden Labs as the proxy.  Sure, there
will be multiple standards; there already are (see 3DIF, Collada, etc.) but
never with journalists telling outright lies about the history of the
Internet.  

It stinks.  Bad.

len


From: Richard Salz [mailto:rsalz@us.ibm.com] 
 
> http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=42704&src=site-marq

> This is IBM being the bad guys again.  It's interesting to see them 
return
> to their original culture after years of letting Microsoft take all the
> blame for that kind of behavior.  There is no IP to be had if they
> acknowledge a history that the entire internet witnessed.

Are you basing your denunciation on more than the one sentence in the 
article?

As far as I know, our "3D Internet" efforts are going to be all 
standards-based, just like or WS/SOA efforts.