On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 21:24 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
> I've come to think that, in the long-distance rear-view, one of XML's
> biggest legacies was moving Unicode from a fringe thing to a place
> where
> there was a huge contingent of developers who'd been forced to think
> about
> it.
A less obvious one is that XML forced a lot of organizations to accept
open source code for the first time, and made it become "normal".
People had been using netbsd for firewalls, but it was a special
purpose application, not part of infrastructure.
>
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