From: Dave Winer (dave@userland.com)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 09:11:46 PDT
Guha, thanks for the clarification.
Three more questions for now.
1. What are your seven unissued patent applications related to?
2. What is your interest in RDF?
3. Do you claim to own RSS?
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guha" <guha@guha.com>
To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
Cc: "Dan Brickley" <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>; "foRK"
<fork@xent.ics.uci.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: What is RDF?
> 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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