Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: The Perils of Sudden Type-Safety in XSLT 2.0 From: "bryan" <bry@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:30:46 +0100 |
>I think this is misreading his words - "a change as significant as this >cannot be made if only one member organisation supports it, and that is >certainly not the case in this instance" - suggests to me that the >correct reading is that MS may support the change but, contrary to the >urban myth, so do others. Sorry, I probably didn't phrase my post well, emotional subject and all. I understood the implication that not only Microsoft but others supported the change however my point is that people seem to have inferred that Microsoft is a prime supporter of this change. That although company B might say "That sounds like a good idea" Microsoft is shouting "This is an absolutely essential idea" and I wonder why people are making this inference. Is it because the idea seems to be negatively received by seemingly 90% of people on list and any negative thing is perceived to issue somehow from the belly of the beast? Or is it that the direction seems to people somehow to neatly tie in with Microsoftian strategies of late? For example if I were to infer on the opinions of Sun about this stuff I might hazard that Sun was ambivalent, if not actively opposed. I think perhaps it just seems to people that these strategies benefit the "big guys" against the small guys, which all of us on list are, even if some of us currently or at times do work for the big guys. Because the big guys are perceived as corporate personalities and the little guys are perceived as developers. If so it becomes apparent why Microsoft might take the brunt of the blame, because Microsoft is the biggest of the big guys and thus the blame has bubbled up to them. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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