OHS-ppl avoided ZZ 'cause of the patent (Re: [Gzz] an over/review of bootstrap-OHS work: data models and interoperability)

[Alatalo Toni]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Alatalo Toni wrote:

a couple afterthoughts / remarks based on the irc discussion:

> developers, maybe associated with right kind of organizations, that could
> help in getting it all further.

forgot to mention, that people on ba-ohs-talk have avoided anything zz
related for the patent issue, quoting Murray Altheim: "wouldn't make any
references to zzstructures in either my software or Ph.D."
http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ba-ohs-talk/0204/msg00187.html

so that obstacle for cooperation is hopefully gone now.

another thing: as we just discussed with Benja, I didn't intend to present
NODAL etc. as an ideal design -- more saw that there were similar things
that seem to be better e.g. in Storm right now (location-independent IDs).
was happy to hear, though, that Benja did read the post with the question
in mind whether RDF was the right choice or not, considering GLX, Groves
etc. but even happier as the consensus remained, that RDF suits fine :)
and for interoperability interfaces can probably be built for others too.

to rest,
~Toni