Re: [xml-dev] Standards and Antitrust (was: seduced by markup)

["Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>]

----- Original Message From: "Michael Kay"
> The point raised by Steve Newcomb was not about the quality of standards 
> work, it was specifically about the legality.

I had read Steve's e-mail as suggesting (among other things) that the big 
companies had made the various standards unnecessarily complex in order to 
lock out the smaller players.  My response was to try and show that complex 
standards could emerge without any such conspiracy.

Pete Cordell
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