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Posted 9th November 2002 at 8:47 pm

This is The case against by Simon Willison, posted on 9th November 2002.

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At last count MS had, what..40 billion cash on hand..?? As much as people like you and I would like to think it's about document.createElement() or W3C standards or DTD's it's not. They are just a means to an end. MONEY. For some reason the DEV community never seems to realize this. MS is just like Exon or Ameritrade, they were created so the "creators" could get rich...period. I don't like the rules any more than most people, but I do know what they are.
chad - 9th November 2002 21:49 - #
Hrm, so someone going on about how bad MS are for (amongst other things) using non-standard document formats, but who then uses Dreamweaver and produces totally invalid HTML? You don't exactly have to hunt for the irony, do you? :)
Tom Gilder - 10th November 2002 03:24 - #

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