From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular!
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:36:52 +0100
Date: 2010-10-31T13:36:54+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18fxxm7akiutg$.fobm3j39kdnd$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ccd4c2d$0$7653$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:59:57 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 10/31/10 8:48 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:57:15 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/30/10 9:26 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:02:17 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So standards production costs money. Who is going to pay?
>>>>
>>>> Who should pay for laws? Who does not mathematical theorems?
>>>>
>>>>> If the answer is tax payers, then who is going to decide
>>>>> which standard deserves what amount of tax payers' money?
>>>>
>>>> Which law does deserve money? There are things, which cannot and may not be
>>>> sold.
>>>>
>>>> There was enough money for the laws about curved cucumbers and bent
>>>> bananas.
>>>
>>> And?
>>
>> Maybe there is still some money left for more useful things, like vital
>> software standards?
>
> So when selecting a subject for standardization, one criterion
> is its usefulness (undefined term, so far), specifically its being
> vital (to be defined).
>
> If a subject vital (whatever this means) then it is payed for
> with public money.
Yes, this is why there is state, which taxes us.
> Who determines what is vital? And who pays them for determining
> what is vital, and why it is vital?
Who determined the vitality of keeping cucumbers straight? You and I paid
for that.
I hope you agree with me that the idea of standards selected in market
competition is just stupid.
> Who, then, will drive standardization of light bulbs, and who
> does the financing?
BTW, the EU is in such stuff anyway, e.g.
http://www.openmeter.com
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2010-10-13 7:15 Ada is getting more popular! Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-13 12:07 ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 14:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-13 17:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-14 22:10 ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-15 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-13 15:04 ` Mark Lorenzen
2010-10-13 18:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-13 18:50 ` mockturtle
2010-10-13 21:53 ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 22:34 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-13 22:49 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-13 23:00 ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 23:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-14 0:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-15 12:12 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-10-24 22:10 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-13 22:49 ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 23:05 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-14 4:59 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-14 18:45 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-14 18:48 ` Vinzent Hoefler
[not found] ` <i95f0n$j61$1@tornado.tornevall.net>
2010-10-14 5:03 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-13 20:17 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-13 22:05 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-14 2:20 ` tmoran
2010-10-24 22:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 0:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-24 21:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 0:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25 7:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25 8:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25 9:47 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-25 10:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25 11:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-25 13:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 19:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 19:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 22:39 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-25 23:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-26 6:29 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-26 14:33 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-10-26 13:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-27 11:59 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-10-27 13:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-27 17:51 ` Laziness (Was: Re: Ada is getting more popular!) Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-27 20:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-11-03 18:02 ` Ada is getting more popular! Colin Paul Gloster
2010-11-03 20:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-04 1:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-11-04 1:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-26 18:29 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-27 11:32 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-10-27 19:28 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-27 19:38 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-27 20:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-28 6:06 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28 8:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 9:41 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28 13:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 18:21 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28 20:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 20:33 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-28 21:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 23:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-29 8:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-29 9:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-29 10:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-29 16:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-30 9:50 ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-30 12:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-30 17:48 ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-30 18:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-30 19:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-30 19:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-30 20:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-31 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 10:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-31 12:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2010-10-30 18:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-29 16:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-28 21:02 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28 21:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 21:28 ` Brian Drummond
2010-10-29 5:13 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-29 14:04 ` Brian Drummond
2010-10-29 14:03 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-30 6:23 ` Brian Drummond
2010-10-29 0:31 ` Chad R. Meiners
2010-10-29 11:47 ` stefan-lucks
2010-10-28 17:25 ` Warren
2010-10-28 9:12 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-28 17:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-28 17:58 ` Nicholas Collin Paul Gloster
2010-10-28 18:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-29 18:59 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-29 19:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-29 20:28 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-29 21:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 1:35 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 5:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 6:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 10:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-31 10:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 12:54 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-31 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 13:57 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-10-31 21:02 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-11-02 9:15 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-31 14:39 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 17:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-31 18:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-31 20:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 18:06 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-30 0:01 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-30 0:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-30 17:00 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-26 0:10 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25 13:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25 14:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25 19:33 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-26 20:37 ` Shark8
2010-10-25 11:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-25 19:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 19:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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