Tim Bray

Timothy William Bray (born June 21, 1955) is a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Open Text Corporation and Antarctica Systems. Bray was also one of the main authors of the original XML specification. Bray was director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems from early 2004 to early 2010. Since then he has served as a developer advocate at Google, focusing on Android and then on Identity.

Quotes

• The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet's future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.
  • New Android teammate: iPhone a "Disney-fied walled garden" in Electronista (15 March 2010)