Re: Creating "prior art" (was Re: Craig Mundie/Dave Stutz...)[DotGNU]Authent...

[TonStanco]

In a message dated 7/30/01 9:46:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
address@hidden writes:

> Norbert Bollow wrote:
>  > 
>  > Besides protecting us from patents, I think that doing a first
>  > pseudo-implementation of DotGNU in high-level pseudo-code is
>  > also a very useful strategy that will ultimately allow us to
>  > save a lot of time because problems with the high-level design
>  > can be found and fixed before much time is spent on the details.
>  > 
>  > Greetings, Norbert.

>  Agreed - but a first place to start is with a structural flowchart of
>  the entire system.  For the most part, this should create the prior art
>  that we need.

Yes. Prior art is more than just the code. Descriptions and specs work just 
as well. The more the better.