Wednesday November 08, 2006

I happen to agree with the commentator on my doc.java.sun.com post. There ought to be a better way. But contribution agreements are remarkable common. Take a look at the one that the Apache Project uses. It's even longer than ours. They are an inevitable consequence of the way that the laws work. They should be changed, but it'll take a long time to bring the laws into the modern era. In the meantime, the laws are what they are. We've worked pretty hard to come up with the simplest scheme that fulfils the legal requirements. Permalink Comments [9]

One of the commentators on my last blog entry asked if it was safe to do translations: would they be lost? It is pretty safe. I can't guarantee anything, but no translation has ever been lost. The way the database works is extremely reliable. The server is in a very safe server room. The disks are 3-way redundant. Running load tests on the server software on my laptop, it can do almost 2000 pages per second - and the real server is a lot faster. So yea... It's safe. It can take a pounding. I've got a to-do list a mile long, but the translation database won't get trashed. Permalink Comments [4]