- From: Champion, Mike <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:02:00 -0500
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:01:24PM -0700, Champion, Mike wrote: > > See http://www.shirky.com/writings/evolve.html > > Oh, don't get me started on that one. 8-) I was going to cite this as the "article that launched a thousand flame wars" and I don't intend to get sucked into another! This really is off-topic, and you all should be critiquing the WSA document rather than reading this thread :-) >I frequently agree with > Clay, but he fell for the "worse is better" trap there, big time. Mark is referring to http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html The article that launched a million flame wars :-) But see http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html I think Gabriel has a very healthy ambivalence toward the monster he spawned ... and I recommend that attitude of humble skepticism about the claims of all sides to anyone trying to make sense of the web services world.
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