Fwd: Rejected posting to TDWG-SDD at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU (fwd)

Mauro J. Cavalcanti maurobio at ACD.UFRJ.BR
Tue Sep 9 22:29:08 CEST 2003


Stan Blum gravada:

> Actually, I liked Jim's "D", or even better still, DELTA.  Didn't Mauro
> Calvalcanti and others try to establish "Open-DELTA"?  This one could be
> xDELTA (!).  I do like the fact that it would honor one of the pioneers in
> this field.  Don't Dalwitz's papers go back to 1980?  In chip-years that's
> a long time!

It is actually "Free DELTA" - as DELTA, the format, has since the beginning
been conceived as an open standard for data exchange. See the GNU Project at
www.gnu.org for clarifications of the terms "free" and "open" software.

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