"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now, once more, why are standards" *more valuable* than >> "recommendations"? > > standards are written by internationally recognized independent > organisations, v.s. everyone can write a recommendation. For you, and > others this doesn't matter, for others it does. Why do you think Microsoft > made part of .NET a standard?
Marketing. It lets them claim that .NET is open and Java is proprietary. SOAP, which is also part of their "open" story, is a recommendation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
