Simon Phipps Quotes

You don't need to fear diversity in tagging vocabularies. They are inevitable, because businesses are so diverse... But if you're going to live with differences, you're going to need strong transformation technologies. That's why the key to XML is not representation, but rather transformation.

- Simon Phipps

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Fear | Diversity | Tagging | Vocabularies | Inevitable |

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By getting its specification approved by a standards body that does not allow individual members is a strategy to make sure that Microsoft continues to control that standard and thus prevent it from becoming a baseline. At the same time, Microsoft is also trying to prevent a multilateral file format from being implemented. - Simon Phipps

We will continue to have this problem with drifting file formats and the loss of society's memory. That will continue to be a problem until there is a multi lateral baseline file format. - Simon Phipps

They expected this and never got it. - Simon Phipps