Awesome read...a bit overboard on the comparisons to sql...but the author themselves pointed out that it was so...uhm interesting ideas, and probably a lot of truth in the community centric design long horn is going to implement...but there are some benefits to that for deployment of applications and for product specializations...it's just that, there are qualities of the web that we would like to keep...and having those be the people's choice rather than Microsoft's is probably a good idea. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Shaun Oliver Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 9:10 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux; Blind Linux discussion list Subject: an article worthy of our attention. the following url is interesting reading. http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=174156 consider for a moment what would happen to organisations such as the iso, ietf, and, irtf, and the like and the w3c, if long horn was swallowed up by the masses. -- Shaun Oliver "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." email: shaun.oliver at optusnet.com.au WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
