- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:04:04 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > ... >> Keep in mind that not all developers have the freedom just to pick a >> new off-the-shelf component, be it commercial or open source. For >> instance, in certain companies you either stick with what the shipping >> J2EE includes, or you need to write your own serializer (speaking from >> experience here). > > That's nuts. It would be crazy for a company that does enterprisey Java > stuff to block application developers from using libraries from the > Apache Software Foundation, for example. If library developers don't > want non-JDK dependencies, that I can understand. (Of course, it would > be silly to block application from using code from > http://about.validator.nu/htmlparser/, too. :-) > ... Believe me, I agree with you. But that doesn't change the fact that this happens. > ... BR, Julian
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