[Taxacom] Rocket science, not?

David Shorthouse dshorthouse at eol.org
Sun May 10 21:00:54 CDT 2009


----- "Bob Mesibov" <mesibov at southcom.com.au> wrote:
> Just an observation, not a criticism:
>  
> I agree with Rod Page that we're not talking about an either/or, and
> didn't mean to suggest we were. It's a 'both', but bottom-up seems to
> be growing vigorously while top-down is still working on data
> standards.

Just on observation of my own:

Bottom-up is under perpetual financial strain; we no doubt lose dozens of stove pipes a year because the coal runs out. What we also need are platforms to offset development and maintenance costs for bottom-up generation of content.

David P. Shorthouse




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