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Yeah, someone could say, "I am going to grow corn so I can ride the markets for cereal *and* cow feed". Or, "I am going to go into corn distribution so I have leverage in both directions". Or, "I am going to go into retailing so I can get 50% margins on a box of corn flakes". They are all correct. A side opinion; I think computer people are the worst in the world for always going meta. Even when we have a clear problem to solve (like, implement an accounting system), we always try to attack the meta problem and the meta-meta problems first. I admit that abstraction is a good way to attack problems, but taken to far it is a way to avoid solving problems while still looking busy. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:56 AM > To: 'Nicolas LEHUEN'; 'andrzej@c...' > Cc: 'xml-dev@l...' > Subject: RE: RE: Auto-completion in editors > > A long time ago I wrote it like this on a wall > at the oldeIntergraph: We build the tools to > build the tools and sell the tools we build. > > Then that market went to MS. There ain't no > money in the core technologies. That is why > open source found a niche and the rest of us > went on to working in deeper niches. > > <troll>And I actually expect MS to do the same before > it is all said and done. Operating systems become > commodity parts in a webified system that depends > on component level application languages.</troll> > > len > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas LEHUEN [mailto:nicolas.lehuen@u...] > > What's great about building foundation tools, is that you can even use it > to > build the tools afterwards ! > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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