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Re: XSchema question

• From: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@i...>
• To: "len bullard" <cbullard@h...>, "Marcus Carr" <mrc@a...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:37:30 -0400

>SGML didn't make too many
>folks wealthy (I can think of three but one already had
>money.)

Engineers seldom get wealthy, but those that own them often do!

<sobstory>

I personally know the guy ( who is technologically brilliant, but a business
incompetent) who owns the patents on one of the break through technologies
in medicine, I can't tell you which or you would know who he is, (his
royalties were signed off of course to his employer at the time.)

His employers made tens of millions, possibly billions, and Stan? He is
retired on a pitifully small pension.

I take him out for a drink and a game of golf occasionally, and he's
grateful. The poor b****ar can't even afford a new car! and we are talking
about a technology that saved numerous lives, founded mega-corps, and made
numerous shareholders rich.

Without too much effort I'm sure that most of us can think of similar
examples

</sobstory>

But you know what, he's happy. He did his thing, and I think that that,
rather than $ is the driving force for most of us.

Frank

Frank Boumphrey

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-----Original Message-----
From: len bullard <cbullard@h...>
To: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
Cc: <xml-dev@i...>
Date: Monday, August 10, 1998 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: XSchema question


>Marcus Carr wrote:
>>
>> Jon Bosak wrote:
>>
>> > Ah, but Lou got his champagne: he sold EBT for a tidy sum and is now
>> > happily retired...
>
>I am reminded of stories of insider trading in which some retiring
>gentleman trumpeted overvalued stock just prior to cashing out.
>
>> Hopefully we can all meet Lou and each other at the first annual 'Wealthy
Former
>> SGML/XMLers Confrence'. I'm proposing the Barrier Reef, but will of
course be
>> flexible...
>
>As far as I know, you can hold that reunion in a rowboat and
>spell each other at the oars.  SGML didn't make too many
>folks wealthy (I can think of three but one already had
>money.)  XML might, but the tendancy these days is to
>make money on applications as the market for core technology
>is gutted.
>
>On the other hand, domain name trading turned profitable and
>I keep wondering when the rush to conquer and own namespaces
>will begin.  In a document of interweaving hierarchies, it
>would be good to control the central threads.  Copyright law
>applied to namespaces... hmm.
>
>len
>
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