- From: Ian Dickinson <ian.dickinson@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:25:36 +0000
- To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Aldo Bucchi wrote: > Take a look at Java conferences or Adobe MAX. How many times do these > guys question their decisions in public? > NONE. Um, Java Community Process? If you think that there has been no open discussion of the technical design decisions or business models or standardisation or control of the direction of either Java or Flex/Flash then you must be viewing the web through a very small aperture. > Because they know it is suicide to do so. > The dynamic that follows is more or less this: > "If XXX has room for doubts about tech YYY, and he knows so much more > than I do, then... why bother?" Any technology broad enough to be interesting has a community around it with a spectrum of opinion. You might equally well suppose that your customers would argue that any tech YYY that doesn't engender any difference of opinions is too narrowly supported to be commercially viable. Debate is a positive sign, not a negative one. Ian ____________________________________________________________ Ian Dickinson http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Ian_Dickinson HP Laboratories Bristol mailto:ian.dickinson@hp.com Hewlett-Packard Limited Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN
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