[MOBY-dev] Cleaning up the Object ontology - Inheriting from base Object

[Martin Senger]

> Here is my position statement - please feel free to attack it or support
> it:
>
   I am not going to attack it, and I am far away from supporting it.
 
> Statement:  Any Object that is registered as deriving from base Object,
> without any HAS or HASA relationships, should be considered invalid.
> 
   My position is clear here, and without any heat in my heart (my heart
has already burned in the pre-xmas discussion you mentioned) I just state
that this is unacceptable for me.

> My proposal:  The Registry should trap attempts to register Objects that
> derive from base Object without any additional syntactic complexity, and
> refuse to register them.
>
   Which would mean (IMO), at least, to loose quite a chunk of Biomoby
users and developers.

   Martin

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