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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Curious about a strange package name with an interesting definition prompted a
bit of investigation:

20:48 zephyr:~> rpm -qa | grep ontologies
shared-desktop-ontologies-0.3-1.6.noarch
shared-desktop-ontologies-devel-0.3-1.6.noarch

20:49 zephyr:~> rpm -qi shared-desktop-ontologies
Name        : shared-desktop-ontologies    Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.3                               Vendor: openSUSE
Release     : 1.6                           Build Date: Mon 05 Jul 2010 05:10:38
PM CDT
<snip>
Summary     : Shared Desktop Ontologies
Description :
Open Semantic Collaboration Architecture Foundation (OSCAF) ontologies
and reference code development. This project is used by maintainers from
open source projects to maintain standards for the interoperability of
desktop and web applications.

  A bit of further looking disclosed:

"Ontologies necessary for the Nepomuk semantic desktop"

  I'm all for having a rich and diverse vocabulary, but reaching so far back
into the Greek vernacular... I just have to ask, "What were they thinking...?"

  Think about it - "Open Semantic Collaboration Architecture Foundation (OSCAF)
ontologies and reference code development." -- That's a mouthful.

  What happened to simplicity? I have enough trouble remembering: 'at', 'grep',
'diff', 'sed', 'awk' and 'patch', much less "Open Semantic Collaboration
Architecture Foundation (OSCAF) ontologies and reference code development."

  I take my hat off to the originator. That is one bit of creative linguistics
-- second to none ;p

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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