On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:46, Joe Moore wrote: > Barak Pearlmutter said: > > http://www-bcl.cs.unm.edu/~bap/dfsg-faq.html > > Perhaps a bit of clarification on the desert island test: > > Are there really two desert island tests? > > 1) Person is stranded with a laptop* and a Software CD set (source and > binaries) Can she make modifications/improvements to the software, or > combine it in a novel way to make a communications device to get rescued?
That's not part of the test as I understand it. > 2) Shipwreck, so several people are stranded with a laptop, etc... If one > of them improves the software, can she share it with her other strandees? That *is* part of the test as I see it used. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
