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Mike did the BigCo's contribute anything of value to the Web? Would the Web have been better off playing hardball when it was driving the growth of the industry? Dave > The collaborative standardization of web technology worked very well for a > few years, when the "internet revolution" was providing the rising tide that > floated all boats, and while the intellectual capital of the academic - > government - scientific internet collaboration was laying on the ground > waiting to be harvested. The W3C process has bogged down very seriously in > the last couple of years because of IP concerns, because the ".bomb" made > the people who can actually do standards work effectively badly needed for > more lucrative work (or they just plain burned out), and because the > technology is getting into terra incognita. XML, XSLT, XPath and HTML were > "laying around waiting to be harvested" from seeds sown by SGML, DSSSL, > filesystems/string matching, and various SGML document DTDs. Technologies > for typing, inheriting, querying, rendering, linking, adding semantics to > syntax, etc. have to be grown from seed (or hybridized from lots of diverse > sources) and it's an open question whether the W3C process will work for > that.
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