Tim Berners-Lee: “Anyone can build a new application on the Web, without asking me, or Vint Cerf, or their ISP, or their cable company, or their operating system provider, or their government, or their hardware vendor.” 
4/4/02: “XML-RPC is being delivered, in the wild free spaces of the Internet development environment, the platform with no platform vendor.”
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