Tim Bray
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"Timothy William Bray" is a Canada/Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Open Text Corporation and Tim Bray#Antarctica Systems/Antarctica Systems. Bray was also one of the co-authors of the original XML specification. Bray was director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems from early 2004 to early 2010. He joined Google as a developer advocate in 2010, focusing on Android (operating system)/Android and then on Identity. He left Google in March 2014, unwilling to relocate to Silicon Valley from Vancouver. He started working for Amazon Web Services in December 2014.

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The total numbers (of fake sites) must be mind-boggling... The software that's generating these things is pretty sophisticated; you might think (the sites) were real at first glance.

These tools are changing the basic core economics of software development.

For many years before the Web there were many different ways of publishing information. There were many different ways of doing hypertext. There were many different ways of doing online information retrieval and search, and navigation.

Serialization is horrible; it's a botched job.

From the point of view of the company, it has been really all upside: the costs have been low, there haven't been any problems and it has been a huge business success.

I think it's going to have an impact.