[Xesam] The Ontology Open Source Project and OSCAF - 2nd try

[Roberto Guido]

On Friday 29 May 2009 14:20:07 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> we came up with a compromise
> 
I cannot see anything different from the previous proposal, so I have nothing 
to add to previously exposed critics (burocracy, fragmentation, limits 
introduced by istitutional layout, and risk of dependency by industrial 
players).

On the other hand, I can advance my own idea of "compromise": leave 
development of the specification in an independent community-based effort 
(freedesktop?), and involve OSCAF just as a propaganda organization.

Since the only aim of that istitutional entity seems to be the dialog with 
enterprise-sized vendors it is not required it drives also development, and 
their members would decide whatever they want about the organization (require 
an higher membership fee, close the association, escape to Cayman islands...) 
with any side effect on effective development of the technology.

Technicians write the code, politics promote it. Separately.

This way:
- development is granted against any istitutional accident, such as failure of 
the organization, take over by any industrial partner, change of membership 
policies, attack by patents trolls, and... escape to Cayman islands :-P
- if any other entity (istitutional or not) wants to help in promotion and 
development, it is granted may do it without regards about a single 
organization internal decision but only accordly the whole community

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Roberto -MadBob- Guido
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