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Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1

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• Subject: Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:03:08 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200210211509.LAA27394@m...>

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...


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