Re: The Standards Manifesto

Aaron Swartz <[email protected]> wrote:

| I'm fed up.

Blasphemy!  Consider a remedial course in W3C-think.

| The W3C has been taken over by corporations with only selfish interests 
| at heart. 

The W3C is a consortium.  It consists of corporations, and corporations
are generally incorporated to be selfish.

| W3C-style standards bodies clearly aren't working anymore. 

Consortia are not standards bodies except through concerted delusion.

| Perhaps they made sense in the old days of the browser wars, but we're 
| no longer getting innovation from Working Groups

There's plenty of innovation, for lack of a better word.  The issue is
whether it's the right kind.  But this can't - and shouldn't - occur to
anyone who starts with the premise that the W3C speaks for a wider
community.  If you want that, you'll simply have to believe it.  Despite
the facts.

Because some will find your lack of faith disturbing.