The survey will tell you nothing. It makes no distinction with respect to software licensing or employment contracts. The questions have an underlying assumption that all code is closed source and all programmers work as employees in a closed source shop.
I found that for almost every question there was no accurate choice present (not even close).
There is often a good reason for the rewrite, or the fork, and there is no reason why fear of introducing bugs should stop a rewrite.
The key is to use refactoring methods to do the work, rather than rewriting from scratch. Implement a unit test framework for the software you want to rewrite, and then do the rewrite through a process of incremental change, running the test suite after each change. This method reduces the risks that would otherwise make the effort seem foolhardy and not worth the effort.
What’s the point of posting the PGP signature if you don't also post the text exactly as signed, including the “begin signed” and “end signed” delimiters. The signature is unverifiable without the precise text that was signed.
In order to fully analyze the ASN.1 standard, you have to have a copy of the standards documents and read them. Unfortunately, to do that, I have to pay ANSI/ISO several hundred US dollars. OK, the C and C++ standards are available from ANSI for only 18 USD, but the other standards are much more... in fact, go to the search page and search for ASN.1... see for yourself.
W3C and Internet STDs and RFCs are freely (as in beer and as in speech) available. This is partly why many of them are so widely adopted.
If the ASN.1 folks want their standards widely adopted, they first have to make it easy and cheap to get copies of the standards.
Maxtor/Quantum's tech is called Quiet Drive and was out in 1999. But their drives are all above 3 bels. For example, all the 5400RPM drives are 3.3 bels. They have a whitepaper touting this technology that shows all but the least Fireball drives to be above 3 bels. The new Seagate drives are 2 bels (reportedly)... huge difference.
This is just a survey article. It doesn't reach any conclusion or add anything to the conversation about business process patents.
Don't waste your time.
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The survey will tell you nothing. It makes no distinction with respect to software licensing or employment contracts. The questions have an underlying assumption that all code is closed source and all programmers work as employees in a closed source shop.
I found that for almost every question there was no accurate choice present (not even close).
Feh.
There is often a good reason for the rewrite, or the fork, and there is no reason why fear of introducing bugs should stop a rewrite.
The key is to use refactoring methods to do the work, rather than rewriting from scratch. Implement a unit test framework for the software you want to rewrite, and then do the rewrite through a process of incremental change, running the test suite after each change. This method reduces the risks that would otherwise make the effort seem foolhardy and not worth the effort.
What’s the point of posting the PGP signature if you don't also post the text exactly as signed, including the “begin signed” and “end signed” delimiters. The signature is unverifiable without the precise text that was signed.
No point. Except to look cool.
In order to fully analyze the ASN.1 standard, you have to have a copy of the standards documents and read them. Unfortunately, to do that, I have to pay ANSI/ISO several hundred US dollars. OK, the C and C++ standards are available from ANSI for only 18 USD, but the other standards are much more ... in fact, go to the search page and search for ASN.1 ... see for yourself.
W3C and Internet STDs and RFCs are freely (as in beer and as in speech) available. This is partly why many of them are so widely adopted.
If the ASN.1 folks want their standards widely adopted, they first have to make it easy and cheap to get copies of the standards.
Maxtor/Quantum's tech is called Quiet Drive and was out in 1999. But their drives are all above 3 bels. For example, all the 5400RPM drives are 3.3 bels. They have a whitepaper touting this technology that shows all but the least Fireball drives to be above 3 bels. The new Seagate drives are 2 bels (reportedly) ... huge difference.
This is just a survey article. It doesn't reach any conclusion or add anything to the conversation about business process patents. Don't waste your time.