Re: [ontology-summit] [Ontology Application Framework] Revised Strawman

[Pavithra <pavithra_kenjige@xxxxxxxxx>]

You know what they say?  Customers are always right!

Don't blame the business folks.. They make the money, they are always right.
Good thing, technology is business too..   So they can be right sometimes too..  ( no wonder younger generation people did not want to study technology,  they just want to use it.. )
I see a cultural pattern here...  We grants and funding to prove how hot technology is..





--- On Fri, 3/11/11, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] [Ontology Application Framework] Revised Strawman Proposal
To: ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 9:05 AM

Anders,

We're very much in agreement.

> Tooling is a major problem yes, the primary one-im not so sure about.

That's fine.  I'm not going to quibble over the distinction between
'major' and 'primary'.

> I do blame us, the technologist, for complicating things that
> could be of benefit for business people.

I agree.

> And I do blame business people for letting us getting away with it.
> Maybe its "learned helplessness" in play.

Another term is "lack of curiosity".  People repeat what worked
for them in the past, and most of them don't expect anything better
-- especially from people who don't understand their business.

John

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