- From: Sean Luke <seanl@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:51:17 -0500 (EST)
- To: Gordon Joly <gordo@dircon.co.uk>
- cc: Matt Jensen <mattj@newsblip.com>, William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>, Craig Pugsley <craig.pugsley@mimesweeper.com>, "'www-rdf-interest@w3.org'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "'semantic-web@w3.org'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Gordon Joly wrote: > 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? Hmm... browser support is a form of network effect. Okay, so PNG might be moved into glass-half-empty evidence category. Sean
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