REPLY Open Source Simulation Software for SD (SD6809)

[SDMAIL Owen Ambur]

Posted by  "Owen Ambur" <Owen.Ambur at verizon.net>

>From my perspective, whether SD software is open source or proprietary is
much ado about nothing.  However, I am strongly supportive of Stefano's
suggestion:

> >I'm somehow of the idea that if at least a sort of an interchange format 
> >(XML is just an example) for model-files would be out there (which would 
> >not be hard to do since the common paradigm is the SD theory itself), it 
> >could be easier to share models and to provide users with a common 
> >framework which in the long run (according to my vision) would lead to a 
> >wider use of SD models if compared to other modelling and simulation 
> >communities, with probably some good effects also in the way we submit 
> >models.

BTW, I'm struck by how many words the average poster to this list seems to
feel are required to make a point.  No doubt, that is because SD theorists
know so much more than most of us about how reality actually works (at least
in their own minds).  However, it does cause me to wonder about the
effectiveness of their efforts to *influence* reality (as opposed to merely
"modeling" and theorizing about it).

Owen Ambur
Co-Chair Emeritus, xmlCoP
Posted by  "Owen Ambur" <Owen.Ambur at verizon.net>
posting date  Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:17:10 -0400