- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 00:26:28 -0600
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, Public TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > The rule I assume is to prevent a company though becoming a dominant > force, or appearing to. While we can discuss the relative merits of > this rule, I'd point out that Alex you are at a company which others > could certainly imagine ending up in a dominant position. It has have > a lot of good people and often acquires other companies which have > good people. This would be good discussion for the AB or the AC. > > I agree personally that you would be a big loss for the TAG. > +1. I may disagree with Alex on most things, but speaking as a Web entrepreneur, I'd hate to have a TAG whose members agreed with me on everything, so I do appreciate Alex's positions as food for thought. OTOH, I do feel marginalized to the point where I no longer care to comment on non-political aspects of Web architecture, as I feel my architectural comments are no longer welcome here as I don't have an e-mail addy from Google, Apple, M$, et al. "Corporate Capture" isn't just a government phenomenon, IMHO it applies to W3C/TAG also. -Eric
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