On 3/4/2011 11:03 AM, Bart Gajderowicz wrote:
> If we look at the way Open Source applications become popular, we see
> it's the ones that are adopted by developers. When this happens, the
> developers become the salespeople on mass. They then propose the
> solutions at the grassroots level, directly to the customer. (01)
The most successful open source projects have a clear, well-defined
goal with a binary metric for success: it works or it doesn't. (02)
There are three kinds of examples: (03)
1. Implementing a clearly defined specification: Linux and BSD. (04)
2. Extending and continuing a system that was started by
a commercial company: Mozilla, OpenOffice, and Eclipse. (05)
3. Extending and continuing a project that one innovative person
developed to a useful stage of completion: Perl, Python, PHP. (06)
Ontologies don't fit any of these categories. Somebody can give
you a complete ontology like Cyc or SUMO, and there is still a huge
amount of work to develop a useful application. A partial ontology
is even less likely to be useful. (07)
John (08)
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