[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: W3C's 'Moral Majesty'
Before I start, I should say again that I hope that we can keep this away from sounding like attacks on individuals. Already some W3C people apparantly think that people raising serious questions are "agitated" or conspiracy theorists (though of course GBS's aphorism along the lines that "Every profession turns into a conspiracy against the public" should be salutory to us all). From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@b...> >On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Steven R. Newcomb wrote: >> [...] The W3C is a software vendor consortium; people (including W3C >> members) who believe otherwise are deluding themselves. >[...] > >I'm sorry, I can't let this one just slip past. As Bristol University's >Advisory Committee representative to W3C, I can assure you that agendas >other than software vending are represented. Bristol University may be >many things, and there are many groups here who do produce saleable >software, but we're not software vendors. We joined W3C to participate >in the development of specifications that affect teaching, learning and >research applications in our *.ac.uk environment. And we're not alone >in this... (My employer, Academia Sinica, has also recently joined W3C.) It is clear from (public) member lists that non-commercial interests do not dominate numerically or financially. Rick Jelliffe Not speaking privately, not on behalf of my employer. 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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