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> --part1_155.1df13bb3.2bca7a50_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > In a message dated 12/04/2003 18:25:06 GMT Daylight Time, > uche.ogbuji@f... writes: > > > > But I've always been skeptical that Microsoft has it in their DNA to make > > the fundamental changes in outlook required to truly open up XML to their > > Office users. Even the slickest UI cannot overcome a mismatch between the > > interests of a vendor and its customers, which, I think has become very > > large recently in the case of MS. > > > > Uche, > > Realistically, do you do all your coding for free? Do I write or code for > free? If we did do everything for free then, in one sense, our customers > would ... in the short term at least ... benefit. But it isn't a sustainable > business model, or so it seems to me. Try actually reading what you just quoted above. Your response is so completely off point from what I posted that I wonder whether you did actual;ly read my message. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Gems From the [Python/XML] Archives - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/py-xm l.html Introducing N-Triples - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-thi nk17/index.html Use internal references in XML vocabularies - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerw orks/xml/library/x-tipvocab.html EXSLT by example - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-exslt.html The worry about program wizards - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7238 Use rdf:about and rdf:ID effectively in RDF/XML - http://www-106.ibm.com/develo perworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html
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