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> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Murray-Rust [mailto:peter@u...] > Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 3:07 PM > To: xml-dev@x... > Subject: OASIS and XML-DEV [was RE: May a thousand XML-DEV's bloom - > NOT!] > > I have publicly stated the reasons why Henry and I agreed > (enthusiastically) in 1999-06 to see the list move to be > hosted by OASIS. > We were asked by someone that I greatly respect, who sees > OASIS as a key > institution for the future. I also believe in the idea of non-aligned, > non-profit, organisations in an age where trust, reliability and > accountability are going to be of very high value. As someone who survived (just barely) the OSF vs. Sun and OMG vs. Microsoft wars, I don't look at vendor consortia like OSF, OMG or OASIS as non-aligned any more than the Republican or Democratic parties are non-aligned. DB http://www.develop.com/dbox *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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