Wikipedia's co-creator Jimmy Wales said about Conservapedia that "free culture knows no bounds" and "the reuse of our work to build variants [is] directly in line with our mission".
Other firms have built specialised variants of Arduino.
In all the Thai cities, brick and stucco temples were built on variants of Indian and Burmese patterns.
Unfortunately, doing so required custom operating systems (most built on variants of UNIX) and advanced tools.
Piasecki Helicopter Co (now Piasecki Aircraft) built three variants of "flying Jeep" for the US army.
For this to be possible, a variation point must be modeled such that the reuser has enough knowledge to build a variant.
Verizon Wireless's network format, known as C.D.M.A., is not compatible with the standard that Vodafone uses elsewhere in the world, called G.S.M., while the AT&T Wireless network is built upon a variant of G.S.M. Vodafone would prefer that its customers worldwide all be G.S.M. users, to make it easier for them to use the same phones everywhere.
Facebook today also started letting advertisers upload multiple images at a time to build ad variants for A/B testing.
This requires the assumption that the Sanger data were 100% specific (i.e., no false positives), and that the combination of the Sanger data and the Gramene build 43 variants were 100% sensitive (i.e., no false negatives).
"Normal anti-virus software would probably have cleaned up Dexter but it was a particular custom-built variant, which was not detectable with the normal scanning software that everybody's got," Mr Volker added.
Darts, Valiants, Lancers and their subsequent variants built on Chrysler's A-body chassis are mostly remembered as boring-but-reliable chaperones for generations of testosterone-fueled teenagers and young adults.
