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At 6:50 PM -0400 9/17/98, Chris Maden wrote: >I also want to make it clear that I wasn't questioning the W3C's >decision to keep its archives private. It is a private organization, >and doesn't have any moral or legal obligation to share work paid for >by its members. Legal, perhaps not. Moral, I completely disagree. A lot of people are VERY uncomfortable with a few, private, for-profit corporations being allowed to set the standards that all of us have to live with. I think the Web is too important to be designed int the best interests of Microsoft and Netscape. The W3C may be a vendor consortium, but perhaps it should not be. It is unconscionable that the interests of users and developers are not represented in the standards process. Quibbling about legal distinctions between specifications and standards is irrelevant. What the W3C produces are more effective standards than much paper that comes out of ISO or other standards bodies. +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@s... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML: Extensible Markup Language (IDG Books 1998) | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764531999/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://sunsite.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://sunsite.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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