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Actually, ad hominem is often used when one can't substantiate a position. Raising standards at this time has no relevance. XML is a product. Windows is a product. Linux is a product. A group that debates schema over schemata for more than a day is beyond sarcasm as humor. Absurdity is beyond sarcasm. Theatre of the Absurd was considered distasteful and was wildly successful (See Samuel Beckett). Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Guy Murphy [mailto:guy-murphy@e...] A sarcastic comment in the midst of a post is one thing, pursuing sarcasm as the made mode of discourse throughout a thread is simply the intellectual equivalent of masturbation. Fine in private company but gets to become distasteful if pursued in public among strangers. Sarcasm is also the ultimate emergency escape called upon when one can't substantiate a position. Standards are not a new thing, have been around for quite a while, and are not yet a political mandate. The adoption of most standards is remarkably organic. One might look for instance at XSLT and XSL:FO that first split due to public pressure, leaving one later to atrophy. The ultimate irony is to find somebody disparaging standards as a dirty word, then advocating that everybody use the one OS to facilitate progress. Of course the reading has to determine whether the person pursuing this argument is being deliberately ironic.
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