- From: Jeff Wilde <jwilde@wipg.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:34:06 -0600
- To: <scotti@MICROSOFT.com>, <thomasre@MICROSOFT.com>, <erik@shell.inch.com>, <www-style@w3.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
I agree with some of what you said, but you are a leader in your own mind on them standards. I wouldn't say microsoft is the leader!!! >>> Thomas Reardon <thomasre@MICROSOFT.com> 03/05/97 11:19am >>> Thanks for playing Erik. Next? I am gonna step in here and add one thing quickly: if some folks out there have pent up hostilities towards Microsoft, for whatever ill-educated reasons, pls continue to fire away. Then you can add up all the email aliases and move them to a new "www-i-hate-msft" alias and leave the rest of us to address the real technology issues of the Web. As for the substance of Scott's post, that the CRN article is completely WRONG, well you can imagine that for those of us who've been busting butt and sweating the hard work of standards, the article hurt. I've personally spent an enormous amount of time on HTML and related issues, Scott has spent his whole life for the last year on it. Its hard in this environment to get any credit at all, typically thats fine, but I refuse to let one terribly false article destroy the hard-won progress we've made so far in opening up HTML and creating a real standard. I stand by our track record on Web standards. We are a leading implementor of open Web protocols&standards: HTTP, PPP, HTML, CSS, COM/DCOM, etc. These are huge investments and ones we take very seriously. -Thomas Reardon Microsoft ps: MSVC bashing? ouch, that really hurt. >
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