- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:56:07 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Oh, sure perhaps most *companies* in W3C do some form of software > development, but that does not mean that the representatives themselves > actually write software on a day to day basis. It's always been the case that companies send their intellectually strongest people to standards committees, rather than use them in production work. This is partly to give the world an impression that the people who do the production work are much more skilled than is actually the case. In part it is because you can produce a saleable product that is far from perfect and an ordinary production developer won't notice the imperfections, but someone of standards committee calibre will spot them, tending to increase the development cost. The other sort of person that companies send to standards committees is political manipulators, who are good at making the standard match their current implementation, reducing costs to them and increasing those to their competitors. Both these views are ones that I developed before the development of the W3C and I don't know the W3C personalities well enough to classify them properly.
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