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Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1

• To: simonstl@s..., xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1
• From: "Wayne Steele" <xmlmaster@h...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:53:56 -0700
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Please calm down, Simon.
I believe this is a simple misunderstanding.
"Business", as in "Business Rules" and "Business Partners", does not refer 
to commerce any more than the phrase "MYOB" does.

Please see the first definition at
   http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Query=business

-Wayne Steele


>From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
>To: xml-dev@l...
>Subject: Re:  Perceived C/B for XML 1.1
>Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:03:08 -0400
>
>jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
> >> Business partners, right.  I don't object strongly to XML 1.1, but I
> >> do object to notions of communication that are just about business
> >> partners.
> >
> >I don't object to a relaxed definition in which you and I count as
> >"business partners", since we have an interest in communicating.
>
>That's offensive, not relaxed.  It's almost as silly as the "all
>computerized communications must be done through formal contracts"
>nonsense we used to hear around XML a few years ago.
>
>Conflating communication into business is just obnoxious.  Perhaps the
>complaints about NEL's priority weren't that far off...
>
>
>-------------
>Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
>http://simonstl.com may be my URI
>http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
>urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
>


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