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  3. January 2008

Re: And so it continues...

Aaron Bartell wrote:
It will be interesting to see the IT landscape in 20 years. Having
standards committees is great for moving forward interoperation at a fast
pace, but it slows individual companies down to a crawl concerning
innovation as they have to wait for standards committees to come up with
next versions instead of developing them in-house.

What we are seeing in the Silverlight/AdobeFlex/JavaFX space is a nice
medium I think, because it gets away from so much reliance on browsers and
their adherance to specifications (i.e. HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc)

I have to disagree with your opinion that standards stifle innovation. Look at Google, they've done some pretty darn innovative things IMHO, using just those web standards you mention above.

I think this might be getting rather off-topic, shall we take this somewhere else? (I'm not really sure where though :)

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