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Re: One (jaundiced?) view of Microsoft's vision for XML

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• Subject: Re: One (jaundiced?) view of Microsoft's vision for XML
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:50:04 -0400
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cpgray@l... (Chris Gray) writes:
>Everybody seems to be missing that the article is specifically about
>Microsoft's plans to use XML to guaranty simultaneous distributability
>and security of Office documents.  His main point was that this makes
>sense for Microsoft at a marketing level but not at a technological
>level, and that because of this, it is only a threat to Open Source if
>Open Source makes the mistake of following Microsoft in this direction.
>
>He explicitly plays down Open Source fears and eschews cheap MS bashing
>(although he summarizes it nicely).

Fair enough - I'm just concerned that the author doesn't have enough of
a grasp on how XML fits or doesn't fit into his story to make it
coherent.  

I noted that I agree with him that Microsoft's "XML as Web-programming
language" story is ridiculous, but I wish he'd taken a close look at the
XML that the Office applications really generate rather than a
"hypothetical Microsoft License Verification Markup language".

I agree that the sky isn't falling - I just don't trust this particular
forecaster's reasoning.  It seems to be based on a lot of things
Microsoft might do rather than an analysis of what they're actually
doing now.  

I'm not comfortable with the article as a whole as a result.





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