April 3, 2000: It's great when people do your work for you.. Captain Cursor linked to SOAP on a ZOPE, which, indeed, includes lots of good XML-RPC links. I actually don't think it's that hard to think of useful applications for this stuff (although they always seem to involve Yahoo calendar).. what I want to see is an explanation of how we're going to convince companies whose sole business model is making money off their users' data to open that data up to their competitors. In response to this question, Dave Winer suggested to me that non-web developers who had proprietary file formats back in the day probably said the same thing. But they were selling software, not the data itself. Am I missing something here? Or will users simply demand interoperability and force the market to deal with it.