Re: [xtm-wg] A little competition near or in our space

[Jack Park <jackpark@verticalnet.com>]

I have been playing with Cmap for a while now.  I don't see anything in the
runtime or on the web site that says it is patented.  Novak is claiming a
(tm) for Concept Map in some of his writing.

There exists another Java concept mapper, fully open source, kindof slick.
It's at http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~robertof/jKSImapper/

This is all part of Rob Kremer's group that has been doing a lot of stuff
with Concept Maps for quite a while now.

I personally think that when the Concept Mappers discover XTM, they'll
import it, and, if Novak pushes his trademark, they might shift to calling
them Topic Maps.  What a concept!
Jack

From: Mason, James David (MXM) <mxm@y12.doe.gov>

> Murray:
>
> Looks like you've seen some of the same wire-service stuff that appeared
in
> the newspaper down here in Knoxville
>
(http://www.knoxnews.com/archives/browserecent/02202001/archives/24079.shtml
> ). The story here says they've patented the software. I cited the article
in
> a presentation yesterday as evidence that our TM work here at Y-12 isn't
> just another of my crazy schemes.
>
> Jim Mason
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Murray Altheim [SMTP:altheim@eng.sun.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 03:26 p.m.
> > To: XTM Authoring Group
> > Subject: [xtm-wg] A little competition near or in our space
> >
> > If we were patented I'd say this is almost a patent infringement
> > (well, not really), but regardless it's certainly related and quite
> > interesting:
> >
> >   "The IHMC Concept Mapping Software empowers users to
> >    construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models
> >    represented as Concept Maps. The toolkit is platform
> >    independent and network enabled, allowing the users to
> >    build, and collaborate during the construction of concept maps
> >    with colleagues anywhere on the network, as well as, share and
> >    navigate through others' models distributed on servers
> >    throughout Internet."
> >
> >   IHMC: Concept Map Software, a knowledge construction toolkit
> >   http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/info/
> >
> > All of the software is already available and cross-platform, being in
> > Java.
> >
> > Murray
> >
> >
..........................................................................
> > .
> > Murray Altheim, SGML/XML Grease Monkey
> > <mailto:altheim&#64;eng.sun.com>
> > XML Technology Center
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> >
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