...open source community makes is understanding the importance of standards, backward compatibility, and all the sorts of things that tend not to be “fun” but which are vital to commercial...
Develops standards for the materials, products, systems and services industries ASTM International, previously the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is an international standards organization that develops and publishes...
Though the majority of standards are company standards, scientific standardisation literature pays hardly any attention to them. In this paper we describe results from a research project on company standardisation...
...the emotions that are aroused in the commercial community when it comes to standards. Indeed, the simple question of what makes a standard “open” subsumes almost every difficult, standards-related issue that...
...word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated such as tree lexicon, N-gram factoring, cross-word context dependency handling, enveloped beam search, Gaussian pruning, Gaussian selection, etc. Besides search efficiency,...
...bodies like the W3C and OASIS. The reason that those companies donated their work to these respected standards bodies, of course, was so that the companies they hoped would commit...
...OpenOffice, to a showing of great hostility by many in the open source community who were already incensed over Novell's recent collaboration agreement with Microsoft (see, for example, Pamela Jones...
...most cases, the NBs comments are much less than 100 comments. Fourth, within each National Body, different members of the committees (and delegations) have different interests and strengths, so of...
...down with pen, brush and burnisher in inks, tempera and gold leaf on laboriously stretched and scraped sheets of parchment. When complete, these beautiful pages were bound in volumes large...
The latest entry into the "now that's really cool" department (or at least my RC department) is a new, free service announced by SouceLabs, a VC backed service provider for...