Re: What is RDF?

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From: Guha (guha@guha.com)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 09:04:14 PDT

Absolutely none of the patents has anything whatsoever to do with
RDF.

What kind of bullshit is this? RDF is not my creation. Tim Bray
and I contributed to its development. There are/were many
others (Ora Lassilla, Ralph Swick, Andrew Layman, Dan Brickley,
Dan Connolly, Tim BL) who contributed more.

Even the contribution I made was not original. I simply took
elements of what I knew about Knowledge Representation and
tried to bring them over to this world.

Guha

Dave Winer wrote:

> If it's not Guha's retirement plan, what is it?
>
> BTW, Guha boasts of eight issued patents on his website.
>
> http://web1.guha.com/patents.html
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Brickley" <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
> To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
> Cc: "foRK" <fork@xent.ics.uci.edu>; <guha@guha.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:58 AM
> Subject: Re: What is RDF?
>
> > (+cc: guha)
> >
> > I voted for Guha's retirement plan too.
> >
> > You missed out the right answer of course...
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dave Winer wrote:
> >
> > > Tomorrow I want to run a survey on Scripting News asking what RDF is.
> > >
> > > dave@userland.com/whatIsRdf">http://surveys.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/whatIsRdf
> > >
> > > You all presumably know that I don't like RDF. I'm most likely to vote
> for
> > > the "Guha Retirement Plan" choice. But I know other people like RDF. I
> just
> > > never understand their reasons why.
> > >
> > > I hope to start a discussion that instead of rambling all over the map
> into
> > > someday panaceas that depend on a lot of magic, and focus on what RDF
> can do
> > > for us today, and what the costs assosicated with that are, so
> intelligent
> > > busy people can make a decision.
> > >
> > > And so if it turns out that RDF is too complicated by two orders of
> > > magnitude (another choice), we can figure out how to deliver the
> benefits it
> > > promises without compromising simplicity and without having to wait for
> > > magic to happen.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help, I hope to learn a lot through this process.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> >

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