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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular!
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:18:09 +0200
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:21:06 +0200, Thomas L�cke wrote:

> On 2010-10-28 15:01, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> Let you buy a necktie, which later goes out of fashion. That is your tie
>> and your problem.
> 
> Not the same thing.
> 
> The tie is a one-shot expense, and it does indeed go out of style, 
> sooner or later.

Software never wears off, so you get even more than in the case of a tie.

Why a motherboard can be discontinued without publishing technical
documentation and software cannot?

> This specific software has been kept "modern" by regular updates (paid
> for by me). Never once have the vendor hinted that they would one day,
> abruptly, kill the product.

Why should they? You bought a service, it was terminated. Buy the sources,
the vendor or re-write it from scratch. I don't see any problem here. I do
with software use licenses, no warranty licenses, software patents, reverse
engineering verbot.

> Open source would've solved my problem. Open source would've made sure
> that my 17 employees could count on still having a job in the near
> future.

For you, yes, but at the macro economical level, as a model, open source
cannot work. There is no return to the natural economy.

> With black box software you simply never know.

This is normal. I go to the shop and see that the product I used to buy is
no more available. Bad luck. Software update is a product as any other.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de