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 Or it could results in investors becoming more savvy and cautious. As the dotCons burn out, the money evaporates, and people look for a culprit, at some point, they may find that between them and a voracious press, they saw what they wanted to see and invested in that. Openness is rarely wrong if the public interest is at issue. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Eric Bohlman [mailto:ebohlman@e...] One of the problems here is that many of the W3C members are publicly-traded corporations, which means that published comments by their representatives have the potential to influence their companies' stock prices. Fully opening up the process would actually stifle creativity because those WG members who represented publicly-traded companies would have to carefully consider every single statement they were to make from an investor-relations point of view, and would likely be under orders from top management to get clearance for anything of substance. The result at best would be the injection of huge amounts of vapor into their submissions, and at worst would be companies withdrawing from the W3C process and not cooperating. It's unpleasant that things have to be this way, but it's an example of the law of unintended consequences; what would appear to be an opening-up of the process would actually result in much of the membership becoming more close-mouthed and secretive. 
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