> I like the idea that corporate librarians and archivists know they have a professional and ethical responsibility that supersedes what the current corporate l

> I like the idea that corporate librarians and archivists know they have a professional and ethical responsibility that supersedes what the current corporate leadership believes is their current business interest. [...] Engineers could use some of this too. The history of the Web shows this hope to be futile. HTML started out from SGML - which, as a reminder, was introduced with the expectation that > [computer users] will no longer have to work at every computer task as if it had no need to share data [...]; they will not have to act as if the computer is simply a complicated slightly more lively replacement for paper [...]; not have to appease software programs that seem to be at war with one another [1]. But then the dilettantes and bogeymen of our profession found ways to smuggle tons of unnecessary additional syntax and multiple language runtimes into document languages. [1]: https://books.google.de/books?id=RilvKya0EnwC&pg=PR7&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.de/books?id=RilvKya0EnwC&pg=PR7&source=...