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At 10:24am on March 26th, 2007, Doug Greenwood said…: yes, I can do that....I need to think about it for a bit, though... How are you liking this ning concept?

At 10:20am on March 26th, 2007, Bill Wendel said…: Did you notice this paragraph in the Boston Globe Magazine article linked to the first forum discussion, "Talking about a Revolution"?

David Barry, a San Francisco attorney specializing in antitrust litigation, says MLS databases are controlled “by self-anointed trade associations that tell us they know what’s best.” Barry is trying to change that through Open MLS Institute, a nonprofit that is collecting signatures for an initiative that would establish statewide MLSs first in Maine and eventually in all 23 states that allow citizens to petition to get measures on the ballot. “Anyone, not just an agent, could list,” he says. The group’s goal is to form open MLS databases across the country that cost about $20 monthly “for unlimited listing rights.”

Can I invite you to post a comment there on how the industry responded to XML, and why it hasn't reached the full potential originally envisioned by OpenMLS.com.

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