Here's the way the above post would have looked if the letters in the tags had been capitalized
We are an active participant in many of the standards bodies and have been leading the charge in promoting the use of XML, SOAP and other standards for our.NET initiative.
Well, a cursory glance at Dave Winer's Scripting News [scripting.com] might suggest otherwise. One of the leading exponents of SOAP, and of cross-platform interoperablity, talking fairly frankly about how he's had his fingers burned by "embrace, extend, exclude".
Re:Open Standards, hmm? (Score:2)
We are an active participant in many of the standards bodies and have been leading the charge in promoting the use of XML, SOAP and other standards for our .NET initiative.
Well, a cursory glance at Dave Winer's Scripting News [scripting.com] might suggest otherwise. One of the leading exponents of SOAP, and of cross-platform interoperablity, talking fairly frankly about how he's had his fingers burned by "embrace, extend, exclude".
I guess it's just a Slashdot thing.