Convopage : @BrendanEich : In 2013 I met Jeff Jaffe (W3C CEO), who was signing up DRM & ebook vendors, creating an irreconcilable conflict in W3C. Those members voted.

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In 2013 I met Jeff Jaffe (W3C CEO), who was signing up DRM & ebook vendors, creating an irreconcilable conflict in W3C. Those members voted.

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I wrote about this here: brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-br…. Read the comments, Jaffe shows up and gets a tune-up from me and some other commenters.

I wrote "You seem to think the W3C exists to provide members (including paying members, which creates a [conflict]) with whatever they want"

"I think W3C exists first to be a good steward of web standards, which matters most when paying members go against [open web principles]."

If the self-described World Wide Web standards body cannot resolve a conflict between pay-to-play and its founding principles, it will fail.

We need 4 Webs www Free Software&Content xxx Paidfor S&C yyy Paidfor S&C +Ads zzz Porn

Porn should obviously be xxx

yyy ?

…DELILAH!!!

What do you mean with "will". I thought it failed and we are done here.

I won't argue about the undertaking ;-).

Timing wise, this coincided closely with my experience on TAG:

Basically the same screwup they made in 2004, choosing XML over HTML based on member votes.

W3C management really believes in the legitimacy-granting power of votes by pay-for-play members... ;)

They are paid to!

Sad!