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Gregg Reynolds wrote, > Well, you've lost me here. Companies don't stop > competing just because they join the W3C. True, but it's not the *companies* who are on the WGs, it's their technical representatives, who might be considerably more cooperative than their respective salespeople. The fact that confidentiality makes it harder to present a decision as 'company A beat company B' might, to a certain extent, free the techies to make the right decisions without having to worry too much about being moaned at (or worse) for making decisions which could be seen as damaging to corporate prestige. It's sad, but it's probably necessary ... > Maybe it really IS because they're competitors, and > company B really has won a battle. That, of course, would be important. But it's a trade off. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)181 410 2230 London, W6 0LJ msabin@c... England 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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