From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,XPRIO autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dfe5456e892c2eda,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Terry Westley" Subject: napster for journal articles Date: 2000/05/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 629533315 X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: news-admin@qwestip.net X-Trace: wdc-read-01.qwest.net 959793181 137.100.53.39 (Wed, 31 May 2000 11:13:01 MDT) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:13:01 MDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Obligatory Ada reference: I was looking for articles on longest common subsequence algorithm because I wanted to understand why Unix and Clearcase diff utilities are so bad. They work on lines when they could just as easily work on language tokens or words or characters. Then, I wondered... What would it take to create something like Napster for finding/sharing journal articles? The most obvious obstacle is that the copyrights often belong to IEEE, ACM, and other publishers who want to make money on their digital libraries. For you who have published or are familiar with the publishing world: Does the author ever or often retain rights to share a copy of the article with others as a document separate from the original published journal? -- Terry J. Westley, Software Systems Engineering Supervisor Veridian Engineering, Calspan Operations twestley@buffalo.veridian.com http://www.veridian.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- Author of TASH, an Ada binding to Tcl/Tk. Visit the TASH web site at http://www.adatcl.com. -------------------------------------------------------