> The few products that have attempted to implement TTM's ideas are 'hobby products' developed and supported by cranky, strongly opinionated and difficult to deal with individuals
Do you actually know anything about the TTM? Can you point to some of these products other than Alphora? (I've looked at them and their just research projects/personal projects IIRC). Do you think the SQL is the pinnacle of RDBMS languages? Cos it bloody well isn't.
Interesting how this also applied to the early GNU project as well, with you-know-who being its creator, and yet the end result turned out to be quite markedly different: GNU and FSF, whatever one's opinions may be on the people behind those things, have had enormous impact.