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> >the Web for FAQs and tutorials. If the the main answer answer is > >"Borders or Amazon", the writers who explain the technologies may > >be more influential than the W3C participants who write them in > >determining which become widely accepted. > Those books all tend to point to the W3C as the source for further > information, especially when they cover specs in progress. > All of this is anecdotal, but it's about three years worth of > anecdotal. My observations with customers is aligned with what Simon describes. Another dynamic is that people learning a new technology are often very wary of "wasting" effort learning something that is or soon will be irrelevant. Especially in the case of schema, people will instinctively feel that different versions of schema cannot long be around. If faced with multiple options for schemas, people become alarmed and look for certainty and security. Which schema can we trust? If all the proposals seek to benefit various unsavory groups, and thus *none* are particularly trustworthy, which one will win? If I buy this book and spend the effort learning this (presumably it takes all 500 pages, or else the author wouldn't write that many.) am I going to have to re-learn when evil vendor X's standard takes over? So it becomes very difficult for alternate proposals to get much airtime, because the general population will nervously shut out too much dissonance. -J
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