RE: Why Triples? (was Re: What do the ontologists want)

> > But if the Semantic Web is going to be useful to both 
> people and machines, and not just machine-readable protocol, then
> > aesthetics are going to play a role whether you like it or 
> not. Make two tools available for the people, one taking
> > aesthetics into account and the other not, it seems bloody 
> more likely that the crowd will gravitate towards the aesthetic
> > one. 
> 
> One can't assume that people will pick a solution just 
> because it's the
> most elegant. 
>

Yes, there always is an "argument by reference to Microsoft" against
elegance, I reckon ...