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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (18527)	4/17/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Keith, as Mr. Subtlety is futile, I got to as what you got out of Berlind's article? I caught it on ZDNN before you posted, the original can be found at zdnet.com , and I thought it was pretty contentious. It declares the Netscape source distribution the end of hope for standards, 'cause everything will fragment all over the place. I wouldn't agree with that analysis, of course. The obvious counterexample is gcc, which is usable on more "platforms" than anything, and has a few extensions, but it certainly hasn't done any damage to C or C++. Customization doesn't have to break existing core functionality. Berlind's point seems to be there should be one standard, and that's IE; he seems to be bemoaning the fact that it might not work out that way. He's got his point of view, appropriate for the publication he edits. On the particular issue of standards, I'd say a good thing about Mozilla source access is that it opens up the standards game to a much larger community. Microsoft seemed to do pretty good at outgunning Netscape and everyone else on the W3C stuff, better than in the mainstream ietf/rfc world (remember DCOM "submitted as an RFC"?). The more people involved in the w3c standards process, the better, from that point of view. Does that delay "progress"? Maybe, but if progress means a "Web standard" like Chrome is "where we want to go", it might be good to slow down progress a bit. Cheers, Dan.