Nonetheless, Pat, the degree to which oxygen has been removed from the
KM space by RDF's partisans, and by decision-makers who ignorantly
credit all the
claims and innuendi of the vendor consortium known as W3C, richly
deserves informed responses, including John's. Your characterization of
John's contributions as "almost comically biased" ill serves everyone,
including you. It doesn't really mean anything. It's like saying that
John is a "snot-nose". Who isn't a snot-nose? (01)
I'm wondering. Do you claim that there is *any* basis in fact for the
widespread belief, carefully nurtured by W3C partisans, that it's
somehow advantageous to treat Web addresses (as opposed to any other
kind of identification mechanism, string-based or otherwise) as proxies
for subjects of conversation? (02)
My own observation, FWIW, is that "the goals of the SWeb" are
indistinguishable from the meta-goal of increasing the power and
influence of the W3C as an institution. Do you know of any factual (as
opposed to merely alleged) basis for any contrary claim? (03)
Pat Hayes wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2009, at 1:55 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
>
> ... his standard, and by now getting rather repetitive, passionate and
> almost comically biassed diatribe against RDF and OWL and XML and
> anything to do with the Semantic Web. Of course, his small company is
> free to adopt the operational strategy which suits them best. From
> what I know of VivoMind, their core business does not appear to be
> closely related to the goals of the SWeb. However, other small (and
> some large) companies appear to disagree with him about RDF . As one
> example, take a look at MindCite.
>
> I point this out not in a spirit of criticism but only to provide some
> reassurance to those who might find SW technology of interest. As on
> a number of other topics, John's views are both idiosyncratic and very
> starkly stated, admitting of very little discussion or debate. I am
> not particularly fond of OWL myself, but to attribute all uses of it
> to pointy-haired bosses who have drunk the kool-aid is misleading, and
> indeed something of an insult to a large number of very smart people
> of my acquaintance.
>
> Pat
>
>
>
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