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Fascinating. No logical challengers; just rhetorical ad hominems. It only took me five minutes to find possible legal grounds to challenge on should that be a useful course. The web is a wonderful thing. First, no one is suggesting ISO do that nor will they. The XML spec clearly states that XML is a subset of SGML. If I accept the Other position on face value, that position: 1. Contradicts the extant documents both formal and informal. 2. Makes the statements in the formal documents unsupportable. Are they intended to protect, to assert a relationship? What value do they have? Why bother to ascertain what this means? Because people assert XML is a standard. Is it? Does that have meaning? Because people think standards protect them. From what? Because the W3C is changing it's rhetoric about being a technology incubator to becoming a standards organization. Is that a good idea? Because we must understand where the law is an appropriate remedy and where we are defenseless. Are we? Sun can patent the IP in XLink. We are told that to change this requires substantial funding. Is that the only answer? Because we should ask ourselves what we require of organizations that we enable to choose our choices. Whose interests are represented? Because there is now relentless and seemingly unstoppable privatization of public assets. Should that go unchallenged? When is privatization simply privateersRUs? Because Dulcinea is a not a Pig. She just smells funny. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Dan Mabbutt [mailto:Seigfried@m...] Len, I'm usually content to simply observe this great comic opera called xml-dev from the peanut gallery, but this latest crusade of yours must certainly be a lost chapter from Don Quixote. I'd really like to know more about why you're doing this. Since, as a character from Oliver Twist once observed, "The law is an ass," please put aside considerations about whether a successful court action could be pursued. Answer this question for me: "What benefit to society would be advanced by taking action against W3C for creating XML?"
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