----- 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
Codalogic Ltd
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