On 6/17/06, Eric Newcomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Web was originally intended to be used to share research papers among 
> academics, but it is used much more for commercial purposes such as 
> advertising.

Actually, the original proposal that lead to the development of the
Web was for a general data management system;

http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

> After having helped design and develop many applications and software systems 
> over the years, I can tell you for sure that what you think people are going 
> to do with technology is almost never what they actually do in the end.  
> Arguing against what people want to do with your technology by saying that 
> you intended it for something else is not usually a good strategy ;-)

Ah, but it's not for "something else", it's for solving the same
problems you and your customers are trying to solve.  It's as if you
were trying to rub two matches together to start a fire.

Mark.




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