From: benjohn@...
Date: 2006-10-25T18:59:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there really an impending Ruby fracture???

> benjohn@fysh.org wrote:
>> I wasn't there, but I've posted a comment to the blog in response to
>> enterprises not being important.
>>
>> Summary - regardless of whether you want to get them involved, they're
>> definitely worth learning from. Enterprises are large groups of
>> people,
>> and they want to use computers to help the people in them communicate
>> effectively - they want "joined up data". This is what I want from
>> computers too. I want to be able to play and program and do lovely
>> things, but I want to be able to share that: share my data and
>> everyone
>> else's just as if it was sitting in my process, and make use of every
>> piece of data and code without a bump. I want global objects, and
>> enterprises are spending billions on solving that for me, which is
>> nice.
>
> I don't know where you live, but here in the USA, there's a backlash to
> all that "enterprisey joining of data". My snail mailbox is packed to
> the brim with mail I don't want because someone "joined" my name and
> address, credit rating, salary range, etc. and wasted precious natural
> resources informing me of "opportunities" that I will *never*
> investigate.

Totally, dude! The problem here is that the joining isn't pervasive
though (no, scratch that, scary word). In "my world" you'd easily be
able to ignore these twits sending you rubbish, because you just
wouldn't look at that data.

Hopefully, some other people would also be able to employ the data
arround in a more cluefull way, and would then find that they could work
out that you're actually interested in x and might want to chat to other
poeple about it (sussex local folk music, perhaps). You'd hear their
suggestion because it would have come with a good reference from another
group of people that you like because in the past, they've been very
effective at only passing on things that interest you.

*snip*