I am however, trying to draw an analogy between Cyc and an open Semantic Web. If Cyc has issues like the ones you describe, these issues will only be magnified ad infinitum in a completely open graph where there are effectively no controls.
>>elblan+(OP)
It's a great opportunity for a company to nail the ontology in a scalable way, especially if the solution can use industry standard triple stores like allegrograph. Serious epistemology geeks are needed for the effort, however.