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RE: sunshine and standards development

• From: Bill dehOra <wdehora@c...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:55:10 +0100

>This is the argument I have a real problem with. If the W3C is closed
>simply so that the member organisations can get a "leg-up" over, say,
>someone wanting to implement an open source equivalent of said
>specification then something is really wrong with the system. 

The W3C is closed since you have to pay to get in.

>How can this
>situation end up with anything *but* competing implementations, rather
>than interoperable, compatible implementations?

Surely that's because the W3C isn't in the implementation business?

>> Simply, the internet is not and never has been, free. 
>
>Maybe you got there after I did. I remember a pretty free 
>internet, when companies didn't even know what the internet 
>*was* (and I'm not even very old!).

I don't remember a free internet. I remember an internet I didn't think I
was paying for, but I know better now. Subsidised maybe, not free.

-Bill de hÓra

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