Stardate 20011003.0919 (On Screen): HP's VP in charge of being a loose cannon, Bruce Perens, says that if W3C starts writing specs which include proprietary licensed intellectual property, then he and his buddies in the Open Source movement will fork the web and create their own standards.
"We do have our own Free Standards Group - it was called LSB - we could definitely get some mileage out of that!" I believe, I surely do. The Open Source movement, which has three mutually incompatible GUIs and over a hundred versions of their favorite OS (all of which are to some extent mutually incompatible) will pull together and rapidly create a single open standard for the Web. You bet I believe it.
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