Ed, (01)
I worked at IBM for 30 years, and there were many good products
and some bad products from IBM. But there is one very important
lesson that I learned: any technical decision that is made for
political reasons is doomed. It may win for a while, but in the
long run, it inevitably dies -- either by a bang or a whimper. (02)
> ... not because XML is good, but because students and
> managers believe it is all there is. That IMO applies also to OWL. It
> is the only modeling language W3C has, and thus it will come to dominate
> that part of the trade that is looking for a way up from XML Schema, and
> from the same fount of knowledge. (03)
That is an argument ad hype and politics. (04)
Such arguments can have a major effect in killing better options,
at least for a time. But in the long run, they are overtaken by
newer variants of the kinds of products they killed -- usually ones
that were designed by competitors. (05)
Bottom line: Anybody who sees that the emperor has no clothes
has a moral obligation to say so. (06)
John (07)
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