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On Sun, 7 May 2000, Wendell Piez wrote: > In today's Washington Post, in an admiring column on Microsoft's CEO Steve > Ballmer (cf. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19908-2000May6.html), David > Ignatius writes: > > Ballmer hopes to build Microsoft's new identity partly around a > computing language known as XML. Invented several years ago by two > Microsoft technologists, it allows easy exchange of information among > different devices, across the Internet > (Washington Post, May 7 2000, pB7). > > Does this misrepresentation matter? It scares me. Until that point, I was > reading the article sympathetically, reflecting that Ballmer may actually > be seeking to change, for the better, the way Microsoft works with its > partners, competitors and customers, as Ignatius suggests. Then I come > across this, and wonder who believes it. > > The troubling part is that, if Microsoft actually believes it invented this > technology, that implies that they regard it as something they can change > in spite of the commitments of the rest of us. I very much doubt they do believe that. This is probably just yet another journalist not doing his research. I'm so sick and tired of terrible journalism - I've given up with the regular news outlets. The Register seem to be the only ones with half a clue - and they're tabloid! -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org http://xml.sergeant.org *************************************************************************** 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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