[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Ownership of Names (was Re: Public identifiers and topic maps)
W. Eliot Kimber writes: > So I maintain my assertion that names, not just name spaces, are > ownable things. If this were not the case, Compaq would not have > spent 3.something million dollars to buy the name > "www.altavista.com". QED. If you wanted to express the point formally, you could say that each unique combination of { namespace, time } or { namespace, time, name } is ownable. Eliot owns drmacro.com at 00:00:01 GMT 28 September 1998 (and for a while before and after). Vanity of vanities, dust to dust, and all that. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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