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>Because there is now relentless and seemingly >unstoppable privatization of public assets. I had always thought that one of the functions of the W3C was to prevent that. HTML and XML are public assets even though the W3C is not a government-sponsored standards body, and it seems likely that without them Microsoft would dominate the market with some proprietary, non-interoperable equivalent. Similarly the W3C tries to limit the damage caused by such nonsense as Sun's XLink patent. Maybe it doesn't succeed, but it seems to be on the right side. -- Richard
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