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Simon,

I understand your point but don't follow you 100% though...

On the contrary, I think that because it's Open Source and a voluntary
work James can feel free to stop working on XT.

Being Open Source means that if anyone can take over the maintenance.

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
>
> Based on James Clark's reponse at:
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/archive/msg13317.html
>
> I'm deeply concerned that XT's creator doesn't have much interest in the
> installed base of his product, which has been immortalized in code and in
> print too deeply to switch out easily.
>
> I've recommended XT as a 'preferred' processor as long as it's been out
> there, largely because it was ahead of the competition for so long. That
> success seems like a great thing to continue, not something to drop so
> easily.
>
> A lot of people, myself included, have spent a lot of time reading the
> code, and switching to a different processor is going to mean starting over
> on realizing some of the benefits of open-source development.

Where a commercial product could have been "end of lifed", there is
still a possibility to continue using and supporting XT because it's
Open Source.

Open Source should facilitate changing "stewardship" as you said in a
previous post, rather than being an obstacle.

Eric

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