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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> was heard to say: | Norm Walsh writes: |> | It's time to get over the notion that a committee of experts can |> | solve semantic problems for a wide range of problems. It was very |> | nice of the W3C to provide a home for the simplification of SGML |> | and give us a useful syntax, but the results since then have been |> | hideous - and in large part because the world takes the W3C's |> | pretensions seriously. |> |> <shrug/> Okay, there's no question that my shrug could be misinterpreted. You expressed a strongly worded statement of personal opinion. Parts of it were worded in a way that struck me as inflamatory ("it wes very nice of the W3C..." and "pretensions") and part of it was a universal statement of apparent fact about how you perceive the world to react to the efforts of the W3C's woking groups. My shrug was intended only to communicate that I had no desire to argue with you on those points. You're entitled to your opinion and I don't think you're opinion is unjustified. I have no desire to attempt to persuade you to change it and I doubt that I have the ability to do so anyway, so I just let it go. Hence, "shrug". Perhaps my nerves are a little raw because I feel more than usually responsible for the level of emotion in this discussion because I started it off with a poorly worded message. In any event, I've found your tone quite antagonizing on more than one occasion in this thread. For example, I find this statement | I guess you're too deeply involved to see the W3C's continuous pile-on | as a problem. I count your shrug as yet another sign that some people | don't care enough to fix it. quite insulting. | Oh well. Indeed. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman.Walsh@S... | In every work of genius we recognize our own XML Standards Architect | rejected thoughts; they come back to us with Sun Microsystems, Inc. | a certain alienated majesty.--Emerson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE9mJlhOyltUcwYWjsRAvyVAJ46Makb/mYC55CBBuPrd7g+g9zYSQCfd7FD rulaSG+Lg9TFDCLVC+A7bgs= =0SqC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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