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RE: XUL Standardization: Lessons from the RSS Civil War

• To: 'Elliotte Rusty Harold' <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: XUL Standardization: Lessons from the RSS Civil War
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:54:56 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

That's speculative, Elliotte, and easily argued 
by counter examples such as Flash and Acrobat.
The question is how to mitigate risks.  The open 
environment has plenty of risks as well as advantages.
Precedents that work given a particular situation 
once set, can be easily manipulated badly later. 
If we want to stay open, we should look seriously 
at this situation and ask ourselves when and how 
we find ourselves embracing a strategy that leads 
to a bad precedent.

len

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...]

If he had patented it and tried to assert more control over it, it 
would have gone exactly nowhere. Probably other people would have 
invented similar tools that would have succeeded by virtue of being 
open. And perhaps if the community had been more involved in the 
development of RSS from the get-go and weren't held hostage by the 
ego of one developer, a lot of the serious flaws in RSS might have 
been avoided completely. There was one very good idea in RSS, (put 
headlines and links in an XML document) but the original spec and 
application were embarrassingly bad.

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