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RE: SUO: RE: RE: Program wants to work with SUO documents


For what it's worth, I feel it is simply silly to refuse to work with an organization that will help us test the real-world practicality of our work.  What kind of Ivory Tower are we living in?
 
While I certainly respect individual choices regarding individuals or organizations that one does and does not want to work with, I've had a lot of experience working with various US DoD technology departments and find that they're mostly engineers and technologists like the rest of us.  I certainly have no love or respect for the current US Administration's policies and decisions (quite emphatically do not, in fact), but I find working with these technology departments no different than working with any other organization.   Also, I think it is unfair to visit "sins of the father" upon small technology-development departments within the US DoD.  (This "guilt by association" has been my impression of the discussion I've seen here about working with BIKE project.)   It is has been my experience that it is DoD departments like this that are often the only organizations willing to spend actual money and effort on "risky" new technology like the SUO and experiment with it.  Why !
 would we want to refuse such help?
 
Bill Burkett

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: John Bateman [mailto:bateman@uni-bremen.de] 
	Sent: Thu 3/4/2004 7:51 AM 
	To: West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE 
	Cc: jim.s3@juno.com; standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org; SUO-STATUS@ieee.org; Tran, Lisa RDECOM CERDEC IBCD 
	Subject: Re: SUO: RE: RE: Program wants to work with SUO documents
	
	


	> The value to us is feedback from how our
	> work stands up to the heat of battle :-)
	>
	
	well that certainly clarifies things! Thank you.
	
	> I think the distinction you are missing is one between a project
	> that is CREATING a standard upper ontology, and a project that
	> is USING a standard upper ontology.
	
	Sorry, I do not believe these are ontological independent entities.
	And it is the question of the nature of the dependence that
	is at issue. That has not been clarified.
	
	John Bateman.
	
	
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