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His premise is right on. He misses his audience if that isn't a satire. Developers already know that stuff and marketeers don't care because hyping to the emotions is what they do. So who is being fooled or who is the audience for such myths? We have a lot kids out there who are in their zealot phase of growth, but that is just mammal stuff. None of this has anything to do with XML. If Kendall is demythologizing XML, he should publish in the Wall Street Journal because the audience for XML.COM already knows what a data standard is and does. But compatibility is not just a problem of people wanting it. It has to be possible in the sense that for a product to be a commodity, sufficient commonality must exist to create a sharable data definition. Now you can be right because the mere existence of the data standard does not create market; a market has to want interoperability, accept the costs of local customization (usually unavoidable but reducible because of the data standard) but without the data standard all the wishing and hoping and thinking and praying only wears out the knees. So how are these sold? Myths. Come to grips with the mammalStuff. Mammals really don't mind being lied to if they see money or thrils in accepting that lie for a period of time. The Semantic Web is a myth. But just like before, old technology will be repackaged, given new names, *inventors* will be given honorary degrees (as Robin Williams says, nerf dildos) and the press will tout all of that, and lo and behold, the web will become semantic. Will that make a difference? The actual problem will be if people can't tell the difference between a machine's opinion and a person's opinion. Otherwise, we know what expert systems (aka, closed world models) do. Did anyone really think the Bay City Rollers were the next Beatles? Well, it put a lot of screaming girls in the seats and they paid for their tickets. Some of them still treasure the posters and some of those go for high prices. Gotta love it. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@u...] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:37 AM To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); XML-Dev Mailing list Subject: Re: The Three Myths of XML Len, I didn't get that it was a satire, and I thought his premise was right on. Basically you'll get compatibility when that's what people want. And (my opinion) XML is a fantastic way to do it. In other words I agree that it's computer science, nothing amazing about it, the amazing thing is when people open their systems to be compatible with others.
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