Re: [semantic-web] <none>

Nice thread

But I have to ask the uncomfortable (and obvious) question.....

If none of this was inventive....  If it has all been done a hundred times before .....

Then why did the W3.org spend tens of millions and 11 years (since they got the completely obvious work from the plagiarizers at Netscape in 1997... who got from the plagiarizer Guha at Apple)  do it all again???????

Someone is ripping someone off.

Either none of this is inventive and the W3 is pulling its own form of sub prime mortgage .. or the work was inventive, in which case, someone else owns it.

Give credit where ti is due and tremble to take  it where it is not.

SW Demon


----- Original Message ----
From: M. David Peterson <m.david@xmlhacker.com>
To: John Milton <swdemon1981@yahoo.com>; Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Cc: SW-forum Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:39:32 PM
Subject: Re: [semantic-web] <none>


On 
Fri, 
22 
Feb 
2008 
10:59:54 
-0700, 
John 
Milton 
<swdemon1981@yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> 
Very 
interesting 
business 
to  
claim 
something 
as 
a 
standard 
two 
years,  
> 
three 
months 
and 
17 
days 
after 
someone 
else 
gets 
ownership.

Which 
would 
be 
about 
10 
years 
*after* 
SGML 
-- 
of 
which 
XML 
is 
a 
subset 
--  
was 
standardized 
(invented 
many 
years 
before 
that, 
but 
if 
we're 
focusing  
on 
legal 
timestamps 
then 
lets 
focus 
on 
legal 
timestamps.

-- 
/M:D

M. 
David 
Peterson
Co-Founder 
& 
Chief 
Architect, 
3rd&Urban, 
LLC
Email: 
m.david@3rdandUrban.com 
| 
m.david@amp.fm
Mobile: 
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