* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Tim Bray: Life Is Complicated
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>| Those with long memories might suggest a parallel between Rick?s position and
>| mine when in 1997, I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the
>| spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to
>| represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued.
>| Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried
>| unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious,
>| deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and
>| took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked
>| there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape
>| and I?m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven?t.
> `----
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> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
<name="jim allchin" voice="gravelly">
Iss juss business, son.
<gunshot/>
</name>
Uh, no they don't, Bill:
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People everywhere love Windows.
-- Bill Gates
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