[10722] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: We need a META schema registry!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William F. Hammond)
Tue Mar 18 12:04:04 1997
From: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:56:35 -0500 (EST)
To: michaelm@rwhois.net
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Michael Mealling <michaelm@rwhois.net> writes to Benjamin Franz
<snowhare@netimages.com> et al.:
:It's the high end users and companies that need the real metadata
:system (and registry) that are the ones that are going to pay
:the large amounts of money for servers and systems.
I don't understand; presumably the high end users
(i.e.,
:libraries, document management systems, technical writers, etc
)
already have careful control over the code that generates what they
serve.
Therefore, I do not see why *additional* large amounts of money
should be involved.
-- Bill
P.S. Don't forget Gresham's law: bad systems drive out good. 8>)
