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> > But what I'd really want is the nearest NON-CHAIN store. > > Products funneling me exclusively to BigCo products are not > > in the interest of this consumer (or, arguably, most of them). > > This reminds me a bit of my early hopes for XML. It looked like a cool > way to create tools which were useful, small, and ubiquitous. It is! Just that's not what people have (until recently) been getting paid to build. > Instead, a lot of the XML out there is still hulking, enormous, and used > only as bridges between particular systems. It's a sign that lots of hulking/enormous systems are getting brought onto the web, and they've desperately been needing tools that were useful and ubiquitous. It's the "small" that's been lacking, for various reasons ... > Win some, lose some. Two out of three ain't bad ... it's a win in most games! - Dave
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