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RE: Architectural Forms revival?


ogilopoly
I sympathize with the terminology pain. 
In working with semiotics, we deal with 
terms coined when Vicky was the Queen.  
I got lost in the HyTime/Groves/DSSSL 
terminology a long time ago.  It is as 
said:  obscure.

But when one goes to abstract from existing 
standards, the question of normative references 
will come up.  Drop those and it is a rip off. 
Leave those, and all one needs is a synonym 
dictionary to keep to the high road.

Be careful here.  You think of the SGMLers as 
an elite.  I know them to be anything but that. 
I think of the W3C as ogilopolists.  I loathe 
to move concepts originated in the commons 
into private hands pursuing pseudo-innovation. 
Lessig's problem is not realizing that his 
heros are the truck drivers for the ogilopoly.

len


From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...]

> Or perhaps we could call them that and honor 
> those who came before.  More respect and 
> less unattributed rip off would be a nice precedent, 
> and seriously overdue on the web.  Otherwise, 
> we are just a bunch of tomb robbers.

Oh.  Come now.  There are other and better ways to respect predecessors that 
to keep up a bad name.  I mean, what's your problem with adding on any such 
spec:

"This work is inspired by, and borrows many idead from Architecural forms"?

I for one am glad that the sensible Ghanaians chose to rename the patchwork of 
nations the Brits stitched togather in to the "Gold Coast".

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