...support, documentation, compiler tool chains, operating system ports, reference software simulators, cycle-accurate FPGA emulators, ASIC implementations of various target platform designs, configurable processor generators, architecture test suites, and teaching materials....
Standards tools come in many forms — including a bewildering (and sometimes ominous) array of reference materials you can order from NIST. So, you want some Plutonium-242 with that Human...
...the question of Internet governance -- or, as they like to say in WSIS, "Who Should Govern the Internet?" If you don’t know the answer to that question, you should...
...the US Department of Commerce give up control of the root directories of the Internet or won't it?" The debate over that question sadly monopolized the World Summit on the Internet Society...
...such as weights and measures (e.g., at a gas pump) or with the purity or composition of materials (as in manufacturing), we are likely to break the law. Laws, of course,...
...delegates to go off-line to discuss a resolution and come back with proposed compromise language. However, these efforts proved insufficient to do more than nibble away at the huge number...
...Jones at Groklaw has also received a copy of the document, which she has posted here. Her commentary can be found here, and as you would expect, like me, she...
...the commercial Linux marketplace. Although there are many other excellent Linux distributions, none of them is supported by a company with the size, service resources, and comfortable feel of a...
...then you are offering a product, a commodity created to fill a certain commercial market niche. This does not devalue the book as an art form, necessarily. It’s just the...
...with US company founders in the majority. They may also be unaware of the enormous resulting benefit to US commerce of that comes from leadership in standards development. On the...