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very, very impressive piece - I read 3 times in a row, and there's just one thing I can't fully agree with you - I guess Bill Gates is a bit more like Odysseus than any other rolls, did I get this right ?? mark hu 646-872-7341 (cell phone) "Breath, Open Up Eyes and Think" ----- Original Message ----- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@i...> To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>; 'Anthony Channing' <AnthonyC@1...> Cc: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:41 PM Subject: RE: XML, MicroSoft, Torquemada and Comics (was RE: XML in .NET - morethan just SOAP?) > Knowing a barrage of "stop this" posts will follow: > > Karellan hid behind a screen that would not > let the negotiator see him until the negotiator > obtained a device to pierce the screen. Then > he understood why Karellan's race would not > move among the humans. Somewhere deep > in their race memory or genetic code, this > shape was the shape of the light bringer which > they had learned to associate with the > end of the world, the race of lucifer. > When childhood's end came and they evolved > into the next higher form, they > did not fear Karellan who now moved among > them openly as through many generations of > careful guidance, they had learned to leave such > superstitions behind. > > Yet as the humans evolved into the next > form, Karellan made note to himself some > aspect of the humans that he wanted to > report to his masters for use in the eternal > task of understanding the hidden motives > of the one whose purposes remained forever hidden > to them yet whom they willingly served and > bided their time for without that understanding, > they could not evolve. > > Prometheus, a Titan, did not think it wise > to keep fire from the mortals. The children > of Zeus understood the mortals would evolve > past a need for them and wanted to keep that > from happening for as long as possible. Being > a Titan without a need for worship, Prometheus > did not care. He knew the mortals were the > future and one brave act was left to his own > race. > > Brave Odysseus was a man who wanted more > than any other thing to go home from the senseless > war that had taken the lives of the best, the > strongest, the most valiant of his land. > Along the way, both titan and god tried to > stop him, but such was his desire and commitment, > even the powers of immortals could not change his > self-chosen destiny. > > Fear of the future is the siren that begs one > to yield to death. Tie yourself to the mast > and listen if you must, but do not abandon ship. > > When Microsoft became one of the first and foremost > of the titans to support markup, it may or may > not have fully understood what such support > would do its product lines. It did know that > such evolution was inevitable and irresistable > and decided that it would be better to go > forward than to simply stand on the sidelines > and carp. Those that did know what it would > do have patiently waited to see the next > form. > > Better bad XHTML than good RTF. Patience. > > len > > http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram > > Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. > Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h > > From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] > > Don't trust the people with hooves. Did you ever read "Childhood's End" by > Arthur C. Clarke? Reminds me of another story, though. Some guy named > Prometheus, who took the technology of the elite and gave it to the masses. > When he "bundled" fire, though, without requiring anything in return from > the humans, that was one step too far.. >
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