Thanks Uche for making me think a little more carefully about this
topic. Your intervention has been very helpful in identifying a
concern that is probably more widespread than openly acknowledged.
On 1 Dec 2005, at 21:20, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
Hmm. I worry about such a land grab. I'd rather put muscle behind
WebDAV and be sure that Atom dovetails. I think that the
similarities
should be used to ensure such dovetailing, rather than to seed a
competition between Atom and DAV.
I don't think this need be thought of as a landgrab.
It needn't be, of course, but I think your characterization so far
gave
the impression that it could be. Nevertheless, I think I'll leave off
this thread. After all, it's all vapor so far, and so no real
problem.
If people do start coming up with WebDAV-replacement ideas, and
seriously advocating them, I can take up the cause then. Until then,
it's all academic.
Seeing something as something else is a very important aspect of
learning. This reminds me of various mathematical puzzles one learns
in school. It is a long time since I studied geometry but I can
remember the importance of seeing a shape as the sum of two others.
Was it by these means that the Greeks prooved the irrationality of
the square root of 2? [1] I can't remember. But there are many other
examples along these lines, I am sure. These questions may be
academic, but one should not disparage academia. It is from those
quarters that some of the greatest changes in the human condition of
stemmed from.
I will say while ducking through the door (sorry) that I don't
think the
distinction between "simple file system" and "metadata file system" is
all that instructive, but again I'll have to take up that matter if it
comes up again in a more practical context.
If the only practical effect this discussion may have is help people
think about feeds a little differently, something will have been
achieved.
Thanks again for participating,
Henry Story
http://bblfish.net/blog/
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_numbers#Another_proof
