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Re: Redefining the meaning of common nouns

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• Subject: Re: Redefining the meaning of common nouns
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:49:00 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3DE62163.2060701@p...>

paul@p... (Paul Prescod) writes:
>Then some marketroid decided ot hijack the term and specialize it to 
>"XML artificats blah blah metadata blah blah blah". That was a stupid 
>decision. Almost everyone agrees that that was a stupid decision. The 
>question is whether the W3C should now ratify that decision so that 
>people like my wife and your cousin will be permanently confused about 
>what computer people mean by "Web Service" or whether the W3C should 
>invent a new term so that elite, cutting edge computer people can use 
>the term the same way everyone else has been using the term as common 
>sense since the mid 90s.

Labeling an Internet product "Web" to get some buzz is like, so mid-90s.
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Simon St.Laurent
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