RE: The XSL-List Digest V2 #598

	>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:25:51 +0100
	>From: "Richard Bell" <RichardBell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
	>Subject: Re: Rant : "Microsoft is compliant with the XSL spec"

	>So far this list has been a great help to me, mainly thanks to the
patience
	>of usual repliers. If it is going to degenerate into another
Microsoft
	>bashing zone then I'm out. 

	Bye. (sniff)

	>Frankly, the amount of time and energy spent by
	>developers in this organisation, and I am sure many others,
exchanging petty
	>digs @ Microsoft is scandalous. Look it's easy ... if you don't
like
	>Microsoft's products don't use them. 

	Look it's easy - if Microsoft don't like open technologies, don't
use them, don't pollute them. The issue here, which people are very
sensitive to in the light of Microsofts approach to Java, is that Microsoft
produces non-standard implementations to tie people to their products &
platform. This may not be what they are doing now - they implemented a very
early version of XSL, and are currently updating it, but you cannot blame
people for watching them carefully. Microsoft people have stated that they
don't like certain things in XML specs, and so do not intend to implement
them, and the prospects of this happening with future versions of IE is
alarming to people who are working so hard for a better WWW.

	By the way, what organisation are you refering to? This list does
*not* speak for the W3C.


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