XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Olivier Lefevre <lefevrol AT yahoo.com>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> > If you want to be a player in the enterprise software world, 
> > supporting multiple versions is a burden you have to be 
> > willing to bear anyhow: 
>
> No, the dynamics of open source development changes that entirely. When
> users aren't paying, they can't make demands.

You are merely saying that, as someone who works (to a large extent) pro 
deo gratias, you are unwilling to pay the onerous entry ticket to the 
enterprise software world; I assume Elliotte's position is much the 
same. That is fine and indeed perfectly sensible but then you should not 
talk as it you were actually in that game and offer concern over losing 
your enterprise-grade label or letting down your enterprise users as a 
reason for doing or not doing xyz. Besides there's always the option of 
making such users pay for support of old versions.

The bottom line is that this whole line of argumentation is unconvincing 
to me. That leaves us with the design philosophy reasons which, as I 
already said, I'll respect (meaning I won't ask again).

-- O.L.