XML Co-Founder Joins Google, Blasts iPhone 628
XML co-founder Tim Bray has taken the job of 'Developer Advocate' at Google. Don't other companies call that position 'Evangelist?' Because he sure doesn't mince words against the iPhone in his first sermon: 'It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.
Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
Comparing XML to the iPhone is like comparing a fighter jet with a celebrity cooking show on television.
Exactly! (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly - it's just like that Richard Dawkins guy - he's always talking about religion, but he's an atheist! How can he possibly know anything about religion if he doesn't believe in god!??!?!
Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
They both have the power to kill thousands, I don't see the big difference.
Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
Comparing XML to the iPhone is like comparing a fighter jet with a celebrity cooking show on television.
I see no mention of cars in that comparison, so I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
Re:XML... (Score:5, Funny)
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using it enough.
Re:To be fair (Score:5, Funny)
Oops sorry. But you got my lightly veiled reference that Apple = Hitler, so I'm still ahead :)
Here's the wikipedia link [wikipedia.org] for those interested.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:1, Funny)
"XML was founded as a proposition dedicated to the idea that ..." the only thing holding back s-expressions was the lack of angular punctuation and an extra, degenerate syntax for association lists which support every god-awful thing except general s-expression nesting?
Re:To be fair (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Apple's Been Blasting iPhone Users in the Ass (Score:2, Funny)
Do you not, for one, welcome your new ass-blasting overlords?
Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:3, Funny)
Steve, is that you?
Re:XML... (Score:5, Funny)
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<content xml:lang="frFR">Vrai.</content>
<content xml:lang="it">Vero.</content>
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Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
He invented XML, how isn't he an expert on cellphone platforms....???
Re:Opinion of Google is Changing... (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, chris.travers@GMAIL.COM, your Google boycott rings a tad hollow.
Re:To be fair (Score:5, Funny)
So this raises the question, who are the Yanks?
Johnny-come-latelys who will hang around for 10 years after the actual fighting is over, and claim THEY won the battle ?
Re:To be fair (Score:3, Funny)
So this raises the question, who are the Yanks?
Johnny-come-latelys who will hang around for 10 years after the actual fighting is over, and claim THEY won the battle ?
Linux. :-)
Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:4, Funny)
Try asbestos insulation. The poisonous effects aren't obvious at first, but it eventually infests and clogs the flow of important things, like oxygen or the data you actually care about.
Re:For the sake of your soul (Score:3, Funny)
While I agree that iPhone is mainly a shiny, overpriced toy, I that's going a bit far.
Re:To be fair (Score:3, Funny)
Linux
But linux can't be the yanks!!! It's communist, remember?
Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:3, Funny)
lol I ws thinking the same thing. Like a guy like this would have ever thought of a UI like the Iphone. Instead we'd be noodling through tons of awkard menu's but hey it would all be configurable with xml and xls. Can I pull my hair out now or later.
Re:To be fair (Score:2, Funny)
You mean they're Mac F.A.G.s? ^_~
--bornagainpenguin
Re:Opinion of Google is Changing... (Score:5, Funny)
lol you have a hotmail account
Re:Lack of credibility (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno, if it were a good rake I might sell it on Craigslist.
Re:XML vs iPhone (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To be fair (Score:1, Funny)
Has to be BSD then.
but BSD is dead
That's how deep the conspiracy goes! (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft was sued by 20 State Attorneys General for violating antitrust laws.
I don't think there's much of a comparison between Apple and Microsoft.
No! You don't get it! That's how deep the conspiracy goes! Either Apple has brainwashed state governments so they don't see that Apple's also violating the same antitrust laws, or fanbois have infiltrated those governments! There's no other possible explanation!
Wake up sheeple and see the truth before it's too late and we have iGovernment!
How to spice things up... (Score:3, Funny)
Whether you are for Apple or for Google, you will eventually get tired of the conversation. So here is how to add some spice.
"Well, I mean OS X and Android are both Unix derivitaves, so as long as we're supporting open source I'm all for it."
Hilarity ensues on many levels.