RE: [xml-dev] The Rise of Worse is Better

["Len Bullard" <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>]

One half-assed hypertext-wrapped drawing at a time with a liberal policy
for the number of passengers who die until you sell enough jetliners to
fix the bugs.

You're still dead.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: David Sheets [mailto:kosmo.zb@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:20 AM
To: Len Bullard
Cc: Costello, Roger L.; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] The Rise of Worse is Better

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Len Bullard <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>
wrote:
> The fail that matters is the one that put an Air France crew and
> passengers on the bottom of the Atlantic because fly by wire, frozen
> pitot tubes and a badly trained cabin crew accepted half-measures.
Pick
> your scale for worse.  They are still dead.

The scale that matters is the one that put a hyperlinked document
system on your desktop computer because text-based protocols, fluid
data models, and a liberal input policy condone half-measures.
We are still alive.

How do I evolve a jetliner?

David

> len
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Sheets [mailto:kosmo.zb@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:58 AM
> To: Len Bullard
> Cc: Costello, Roger L.; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] The Rise of Worse is Better
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Len Bullard <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>
> wrote:
>> Would you really want to fly in a jetliner built with that
philosophy?
>
> Are you building a jetliner or an air travel industry? Different fails
> for different scales?
>
> David
>