[rdfweb-dev] FOAFnet and the future of FOAF in commercial systems

[Julian Bond]

Marc Canter <marc at broadbandmechanics.com> wrote:
>What Julian said...........
>
>As much as we want to the world to be like us - most of the time -
>they're gonna be like the them and wonder why we can't work in their
>paradigm.
>
>THIS is one of the reasons why the semantic web is scoffed at.  We come
>off looking fairly dogmatic and rigid.  If we can't adapt to the
>existing world - how are we ever gonna transition forward?

Yeah, I'm being cranky, sorry. ;-) I've just come off implementing vCard 
and iCal export in Ecademy. Yet again, there's a standard that's well 
written that everyone sort of follows to varying degrees. You have to 
resort to reverse engineering what they *export* in order to work out 
what they might be able to *import*. And while Mozilla Calendar is 
accurate but incomplete, Outlook is weird and the Mac is strange.

Just the programmer's rich tapestry. ;^)

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