> Pat Cassidy wrote:
> >>> Portion of that cost that could be reduced by a common foundation
> >>> ontology: 1/5 (20 billion per year)
>
> Pat Hayes wrote:
> >> Here's where we disagree. I suggest that the correct proportion here
> >> would be more like 0.01 percent. Not because it wouldn't work if
> >> people would all use it, but because people will not in fact use it.
>
> Matthew West wrote:
> > [MW] That is of course still more than we could think of how to spend.
>
> [PH] I make that 10M$. I thought PatC was talking about 30M$.
>  (01) 
 CALO was funded at over 200M. It seems you lack imagination.
 More to the point, the cost is needed to provide serious time for the 100
participants to find the translations among their different systems.  (02)
Pat  (03)
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