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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular!
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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.

> If the answer is vendors, some do pay. Still, why would
> they want to pay for something that doesn't let them do
> what they want?

Because that would not let others do what they did before. E.g. Blue-ray
vs. HD DVD. God, protect us from vendor's standards.

> If the answer is customers,

Customers are always to pay.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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