Microsoft's responce to XML.com article

[Bill dehOra]

:  Not only - I'm talking about reps from paying members; it's 
:  well-known
:  that even if someone is doing a titanic amount of work 
:  editing a spec,
:  when they have an in-house product-release crunch, well, 
:  they're just not
:  going to be doing any editing for a while.  That is unless they're a 
:  "standards drone" a well-known species of engineer who isn't trusted
:  to do any real work but is dispatched to standards committees, found
:  in some but not all large technology vendors.

Are you saying that writing standards isn't real work?

Bill

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.