On Fri, 3 May 2002, Michael McCallum wrote: > > I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if > > 'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to > > get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are > > the standards. > > > Microsoft did not get where it was by using standards. It created > things which were easy for people to use and they became the de facto > standards.
Microsoft get where it is in part because various Unix vendors created their own competing OS versions and tried to become the de facto standard. Most attempts to create 'de facto standards' that compete with an existing standard do fail, even for Microsoft. Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
