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Re: [ontology-summit] [strategy] Blank Stares and Semantic Technology: A

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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:34:10 -0500
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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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