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Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] Promotion of Conceptual Model
> [Kal Ahmed:] > > Anyway, what is wrong with a separate Conceptual Model document ? > > It speaks to a different audience and serves a different purpose [steve] > > The stated purpose of Topicmaps.Org is to serve the public interest. > Let's actually serve the public interest It seems the desire is for 1.0 to be as ubiquitous as HTML and as exhaustively specified as HyTime. Which one served the public interest better? (I'm inclined to answer HTML, though I don't know how this will net out over time.) Life is full of compromises. I'd be inclined to go with Kal. "At the end of the day," only the perception of simplicity leads to adoption, and only adoption leads to ubiquity. S. ===== <!-- "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations --> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> Create your business web site your way now at Bigstep.com. It's the fast, easy way to get online, to promote your business, and to sell your products and services. Try Bigstep.com now. http://click.egroups.com/1/9183/1/_/337252/_/974394080/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com
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