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RE: Lessons from the RSS Civil War: The Circle Of Life

• To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>,"Gerald Bauer" <luxorxul@y...>
• Subject: RE: Lessons from the RSS Civil War: The Circle Of Life
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:43:36 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Thread-index: AcM9An6+q8nO9XAWSOeNEClU9i6Q+AAA08Pg
• Thread-topic: Lessons from the RSS Civil War: The Circle Of Life

*sigh* 

Why do you continue to bait this troll? This is probably the dozenth
time I've seen someone point this out on XML-DEV, I'm sure he gets the
point by now. 

-- 
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If you try to please everyone, no one will like it.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 4:18 PM
> To: Gerald Bauer
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Lessons from the RSS Civil War: The 
> Circle Of Life
> 
> Gerald, please notice the pattern of naming:
> 
>   C -> C++ -> Java -> C#
> 
> By choosing new names for new things, it is possible to talk 
> meaningfully about the difference between C# and C rather 
> than "Microsoft C" and "Sun C" and "AT&T C" which has a 
> totally different connotation.
> 
> I don't think anybody minds Luxor building on XUL or even 
> keeping the XUL name for the parts that are compatible with 
> traditional XUL. The flamewar is when XUL is applied to 
> random XML technologies that happen to have something to do 
> with user interfaces.
> 
>   Paul Prescod
> 
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