- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:51:40 -0500
- To: Bill Andersen <andersen@ontologyworks.com>, W3C WG RIF <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
At 7:30 -0500 12/14/05, Bill Andersen wrote: >Everybody, > >I over-reacted and was uncharitable toward Jim Hendler in my post of >two days ago wrt his reply to an earlier post on the "uncle" >example, imputing motivations to him that I had no good reason to >believe were the case. I've already apologized to him personally >and I do it here now publicly. > > .bill > thanks Bill, I've been called much worse in working groups I've chaired :-), but it's nice that we set the precedent that the goal of this WG is to cooperate and work together to the best ends. We will clearly have many disagreements among members over the next few years, but the more we keep them focused on the technology, rather than imputing motives, the happier I'll be and the more likely we'll be to succeed in the end. So, again, thanks. -JH -- Professor James Hendler Director Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery 301-405-2696 UMIACS, Univ of Maryland 301-314-9734 (Fax) College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler (New course: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/CMSC498w/)
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