Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 14th Jul 2006 22:32 UTC
OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. OpenCyc can be used as the basis for a wide variety of intelligent applications. This is release 1.0 of OpenCyc featuring the complete Cyc ontology of over 260,000 terms and their definitional assertions numbering over 1.8 million. OpenCyc requires about 500MB of disk space and performs best with over 512 MB RAM. One GB of RAM is recommended for Cyc when accessed by Java applications.
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RE[2]: OpenCyc not so open?
by binarycrusader on Sat 15th Jul 2006 00:05
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Yes, but that still means it's not really "open." At least, it doesn't fit the definition of what most readers of this site would associated with "open" and software.
Not that there's anything wrong with that! I'm a commercial software developer myself. I just think the other poster is right, and the name is a bit of a misnomer.
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I do not want to sound like an ingratefull twit but OpenCyc isn't quite "open", isn't it? After all, the inference engine, which is the core of the application, is clearly kept tightly closed and out of reach of anyone.
Yes, a version of that inference engine, which only offers very basic funcitonality, is shipped with the open source project but it isn't quite the same as being "open", is it?