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XML Co-Founder Joins Google, Blasts iPhone

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.

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  1. Re:XML vs iPhone by JamesP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comparing XML to the iPhone is like comparing a fighter jet with a celebrity cooking show on television.

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  2. Exactly! by schon · · Score: 4, 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!??!?!

  3. Re:XML vs iPhone by .tekrox · · Score: 5, Funny

    They both have the power to kill thousands, I don't see the big difference.

  4. Re:XML vs iPhone by interkin3tic · · 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.

  5. Re:XML... by nebaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using it enough.

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  6. Re:To be fair by Hadlock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oops sorry. But you got my lightly veiled reference that Apple = Hitler, so I'm still ahead :)
     
    Here's the wikipedia link for those interested.

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  7. Re:XML vs iPhone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Steve, is that you?

  8. Re:XML... by ekhben · · Score: 4, Funny

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <reply xmlns="http://slashdot.org/xmlns/reply">
        <content xml:lang="enUS">True.</content>
        <content xml:lang="frFR">Vrai.</content>
        <content xml:lang="it">Vero.</content>
        <content xml:lang="hr">Istinto.</content>
    </reply>

  9. Re:XML vs iPhone by neoform · · Score: 4, Funny

    He invented XML, how isn't he an expert on cellphone platforms....???

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  10. Re:Opinion of Google is Changing... by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, chris.travers@GMAIL.COM, your Google boycott rings a tad hollow.

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  11. Re:To be fair by daveime · · 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 ?

  12. Re:XML vs iPhone by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 3, 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.

  13. Re:To be fair by Capsaicin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linux

    But linux can't be the yanks!!! It's communist, remember?

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  14. Re:XML vs iPhone by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  15. Re:Opinion of Google is Changing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    lol you have a hotmail account

  16. That's how deep the conspiracy goes! by weston · · Score: 4, 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!