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 Ok, but spell out MIF for me. :-) Losing a fight has downsides, mostly pain and loss of opportunity, but losing a cause is a loss of motivation and direction. It can also be the start of learning as all causes are not worthwhile. Pick your battles and trust both your own judgement and your capacity to learn. Don't play zero sum. XML shapes behavior because of the way one has to go about implementing it. Few technologies I've worked with require as much cooperation and negotiation among "the humans" as markup does. That is a strength where the culture is fit, that is, demonstrates a proficiency at cooperation and negotiation, and a true "killer app" where they don't because it can quickly put an unfit company out of business. This wasn't true of HTML. It requires practically no cooperation, and in fact, rewards that behavior. That is why Netscape lost. When it came time for Marc A et al to evolve the web through their product architecture, they sat back and derided the best deal as proprietary. Events simply rolled over them after that. They lost sight of their original goals of evolving the web, or simply didn't technically understand the direction it was taking. Hopefully, they learned from that experience, but if their only resort was litigation, they didn't learn enough. Sometimes when fighting the fight, one loses the cause. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Niclas Olofsson [mailto:gurun@a...] "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > We can't force others to be honest; we can shape them such > that they are very predictable. After thinking long and hard about it (which has nothing to do with my late response) I came to the conclusion that this is the exact reason why I'm a total MIF fan. MIF doesn't predict possible outcomes, they simply create them. The way of standard is as is, and sometimes fighting for the fight is better than fighting for a cause. After all it's must be better to loose the fight than to loose a cause. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** 
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