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		<outline text="Heads up: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/stories/storyReader$1514&quot;&gt;A key difference between SOAP and XML-RPC&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soapbuilders/message/742&quot;&gt;Eric Kidd pledges&lt;/a&gt; interop with &quot;BDG&quot; in C/C++. &lt;i&gt;Happy!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soapbuilders/message/747&quot;&gt;I posted&lt;/a&gt; an update re soapware.org."/>
		<outline text="Mr and Mrs Simmons: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sheila.inessential.com/stories/storyReader$137&quot;&gt;Favorite Books&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/01WWLN.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;..the time has come, in the long debate over music in the digital age, to stop discussing the actions and motives of those who produce and distribute music and to start considering the actions and motives of those who actually consume it.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Take a programmer to lunch">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.mercurycenter.com/ejournal/2001/03/30&quot;&gt;Dan Gillmor comments&lt;/a&gt; on Michael Tchong's pathetic call to buy stuff on the Web on April 3. &quot;Don't buy things just because they're online,&quot; says Dan. &quot;Buy them because you need them.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="I have a better idea. On April 3 take a programmer to lunch. Get him out and away from the keyboard. Show him that the sky is still blue and that sunshine feels good. Give him a nice meal and a pat on the back. "/>
			<outline text="&quot;Good job,&quot; you might say, &quot;Surviving all that michegas in the dotcom period is quite an accomplishment!&quot;"/>
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		<outline text="Inner-critic">
			<outline text="I have a very strong inner-critic."/>
			<outline text="Here's how it works."/>
			<outline text="I get a great idea."/>
			<outline text="He says: &quot;Why didn't you think of that sooner?&quot;"/>
			<outline text="I get defensive."/>
			<outline text="I start to reason with the critic."/>
			<outline text="Today I got fed up."/>
			<outline text="&quot;Because I'm a good person.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="Nuf said."/>
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		<outline text="More SOAP politics">
			<outline text="Key quote from yesterday. &quot;I think I've offered [Microsoft] a sweet deal, a way to enable independent and open source developers to work to make Dot-Net an even greater success than it would be if it were a closed bathtub. Dead developers don't write code, and some of us would rather die that work in a Microsoft environment. (No disrespect to their software, but the price in freedom is too high.)&quot;"/>
			<outline text="There may come a day when engineers leave Microsoft to get people to use their software, because the environment is so polluted by Microsoft's various attempts to suck all developers in. Been around the block too many times. I said no to Sun, and I said no to Microsoft. I am an independent developer. I don't mind competition. But I refuse to be assimilated. Not a joke."/>
			<outline text="I like low-tech understandable interop. I don't like vague and complicated specs that have wild cards and aren't frozen. I want to offer my users choice. If they don't like our software, it's easy to switch to something else. (I want choice too, some of our apps are better implemented in other environments.) The only way to get rid of lock-in is to make it &lt;i&gt;easy&lt;/i&gt; to be compatible. That's why we did &quot;BDG&quot;, because the full SOAP spec is so damned hard to implement it will probably only be implemented by Microsoft. "/>
			<outline text="That's where the assimilation comes in. If the only environment that works with all the others is Microsoft's we're all fucked, including Microsoft. Not that it's my job to worry about Microsoft, it's not, but I'm willing to sell them (if only they were willing to sell me)."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soapbuilders/message/751&quot;&gt;On the soapbuilder list&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;I work so openly, the ideas just must be strange. How could I be willing to give them something for free without somehow poisoning them?&quot;"/>
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