1. Why So?

It's too New.

1999, Stefano Mazzocchi, MIT, Apache Board Member

http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/index.html

It's strange.

Unix pipelines

It's different.

XML++

It's compulsive.

My eyesight is deteriorating

It's weird, Euro trash

So was Lego, in the beginning

They eat their own dog food over there

Mighty nutritious and delicious