Rick JELLIFFE wrote:

>   Let's not waste our
>  presious emotional energy.  W3C will put out specs: some specs we will
>  like or dislike; some specs they will do a bad job at; some specs could
>  be bettered by an individual under inspiration; some specs will be
>  skewed to the commercial positions occupied by the companies who pay the
>  people to create the specs.

Hear, hear.

>  (Please, no accusations of censorship or Lee Kuan Yu-ery. :-)  I suppose
>  from a kind of Marxist-Leninist position, W3C could be seen as a sign
>  that industry is reaching the stage of oligarchy capitalism.)

Ditto the U.S. government.

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