RE: More On the Semantic Web (or: is RDF any good?)

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Sean Luke wrote:


>[...]
> Let me propose the glass-is-half-empty scenario, which I think to be much
> more likely: network effects also prevent systems from being adopted.  If
> ABCNews.com were to *not* support a semantic standard, then I now have
> more of an excuse to *not* spend all that time supporting this standard on
> my own site. I think the right way to view the PNG situation is that it
> didn't take off like a rocket *despite* having no nework inertia to hold
> it down.  This causes Luke's First Law :-), namely quality is inversely
> proportional to popularity.

Browser support? As I user, I like PNG but my browser does not support
it. Is that it?

Gordo



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