- From: Greg FitzPatrick <greg.fitzpatrick@metamatrix.se>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:31:34 +0200
- To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>, "rdf" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Greg FitzPatrick wrote: >> Machines may have no problem reading things that humans have trouble with >> but they don't decide what protocols to use, humans do - at least for now:-) Seth Russell answered: >This is true only sans effective tools. Cases in point: Lotus 1.2.3, MSWord, postscript, and PDF. Seth, You listed "products" developed by (or into) monopolies or at least oligarchies. We (who are we?) are a panopoly, a common interest affinity group. I am sure that the technologies you named had to package themselves and struggle within their fostering environments in order to reach product status... Come to think of it I am not sure about that at all. Perhaps they were just brilliant ideas, that due to exceedingly effective RAD-teams, avoided death-by-committee and ended up as extremely successful products. Anyhow they got by in the internal marketplace of their companies. Be that as it may, they are proprietary products containing (somewhat) proprietary technologies and panopolies are not supposed to create proprietary products or technologies. Back to square one. We still have to "sell" the technology - if only within the panopoly. Survival-by-committee. Greg Seth Russell http://RobustAI.net/MyNetwork/index.html http://robustAI.net/MyNetwork/StickeyCyberMolecules.html Http://RobustAi.net/Ai/Conjecture.htm
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