It ain't real unless the Big Corporations drive it...
...even if they're back-seat-driving.
Dave Winer writes
about John Dvorak and the big companies that appear to be driving the direction of web services:
Suppose Dvorak doesn't know that there are lots of independent developers doing cool stuff with XML-RPC and SOAP? It's quite possible especially if he reads the reports written by his colleagues in the other big pubs.
My guess is that he does know that there are independent developments,
but considers it irrelevant. By the time such developments become important
enough for him to write about, one or another of the big companies have
bought their way into the game.
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