Oh, do you have that in writing?
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There is a need to find better ways of storing documents other than in paper form because of the many problems associated with this approach to records management. Aside from being flammable and shreddable, paper is vulnerable to theft, water damage and misplacement. Furthermore, paper-stored information becomes harder to locate as the volume of paper documents increases. A solution to this problem is digital storage of information. However, this gives rise to two issues: how to deal with the sheer volume of existing documents and how to develop an efficient way of searching for information in digitized documents. BitWise Designs Inc of Schenectady, NY, has created a system that uses several technologies to allow the storage, sorting and sharing of the images and information contained in documents. DocSTAR combines such technologies as image scanning, database storage, optical character recognition, indexing, and read and write optical disks.
Publication Name: Management Accounting (USA)
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1690
Year: 1997
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So what are the rules?
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The computer industry has not yet developed a standard that would unify the business. Different parties are struggling to impose their own codes because so much is at stake, with the winner ultimately gaining a dominant position in the industry. However, no standard has been found to be universally acceptable to the industry. A notable development is the principles of competition released by the Software Publishers Assn. These principles emphasize innovation, nondiscriminatory licensing of interface specifications to third party software developers, leveraging of an operating system into the sale of products and services, competitive licensing of software applications to original equipment manufacturers, and equal access to retail customers. They also cover discriminatory access to Internet content, disadvantaging of rival products, and pre-announcements and vaporware.
Publication Name: Management Accounting (USA)
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1690
Year: 1998
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Looking-glass software
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The Linux operating system is a unique software because of the way it has been developed and how it is distributed. First of all, the software is not copyrighted. Instead, it is copylefted, a legal term created by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation to prevent restricted distribution of any material. Linux, in effect, is a free software because it is not bound by copyright laws. Moreover, Linus contradicts a phenomenon in software development called Brook's law. The law states that a late software project will become even later and more complexed if developers are added. Linux is based on a model that allows the software to be changed and released frequently to an international project team, requiring the most possible number of developers. However, this arrangement has not resulted in the demise of the Linux project as predicted by Brook's law.
Publication Name: Management Accounting (USA)
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1690
Year: 1998
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