  RE: Cursors face defining moments on the Web  From: Joshua
Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:11:36
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msg-08.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> To: "'Aaron Swartz'"
<aswartz@swartzfam.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org Aaron, thank
you for your comments.  Some response below:  > to modify,
translate, copy and sell Nupedia articles without having to >
worry about copyrights.  Also I think that another motive was to
eliminate the bias that corporations might selfishly impose.
Even Britannica I suppose was an instrument of British cultural
imperialism.  Nupedia will probably be biased towards the
interests of people who are opposed to copyrights, right?  >
(swinging back around to RDF) Interestingly, the project has
been > ways of cataloging articles without forcing a cataloging
system upon the  Yeah, that's what I meant by them trying to
build the semantic web from scratch.  First, nupedia allows
anyone to contribute content, so no differen