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RE: XUL Standardization: Lessons from the RSS Civil War

• To: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XUL Standardization: Lessons from the RSS Civil War
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:32:28 +0200
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• In-reply-to: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE022DC4B5@h...>
• Reply-to: <danny666@v...>

You are the very model of a modern Major-General...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...]
> Sent: 27 June 2003 16:16
> To: 'danny666@v...'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  XUL Standardization: Lessons from the RSS Civil
> War
>
>
> A crew is arriving at your house tonight
> to take anything that you haven't polished, used,
> or otherwise shared with your neighbors.  If you
> object, we won't cut you in on the spoils and we
> may burn down your house leaving; if you
> help us, we will let your house stand, but we
> will own your silver for the good of the commons.
>
> To the true inventors:  if you have a valuable idea or
> innovation and the moxie to build it, PATENT IT
> AND KEEP IT PROPRIETARY.  That is the only
> way the local laws will help you fight the
> web pirates who are flying the flag of community
> instead of the skull and crossbones.
>
> Queen Elizabeth I decorated her buccaneers until
> the winds of world politics shifted.  Then she
> tossed 'em in jail.
>
> len
>
>
> From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny666@v...]
>
> Anyhow, I only wanted to say that there wasn't only Tim's
> veteran's-eye view
> of the situation (which is a big plus for the project), there was also the
> emerging view of the group, and that the two didn't entirely coincide. The
> biggest deviation so far is in an area that to an outsider might look
> trivial - the non-use of the name RSS (the current working name is now
> Echo). But the naming issue has probably been the biggest single fan of
> flames in the RSS fork inferno, and there were many that would
> only support
> a New Format if the name (and its political baggage) were dropped.
>
> Using a different name also brings a great
> psychological/practical gain - it
> feels ok to tear things up and start again. Has XUL really
> reached the point
> where that is the only clear route forward?
>
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