- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:06:21 +0200
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 19/04/2007 23:19, Chris Wilson wrote: > Håkon, was there some actual proof in there, or just invective? > Were you on the purported phone call? Were you actually claiming > that Jean Paoli had little to do with XML's development? Can you > ever come to the table with Microsoft without claiming some kind of > conspiracy or evildoing on our part? Please? (begin of parenthesis) Just for the historical record, Jean Paoli was working on SGML, simplification of SGML, DSSSL, compound documents at a time almost none of you had any idea about the words "markup" or "stylesheet". I was there, working with him, in his team at Grif SA and before at Gipsi SA. (end of parenthesis) I just would like to make one important comment : *whatever* the technical contribution from Microsoft to the XML spec, their name on that spec was needed. The world needed a clear signal from the community that this was not yet another spec partially implemented by some people, left aside by others, and abused by a few. So I just don't care about their contribution level, the spec got what it needed to become a success, and Håkon found yet another bork-borking subject for a CNet article. What's in a name... </Daniel>
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