From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:35:19 -0500 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <1rydnd11YbS6ssbeRVn-rA@comcast.com> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:35:19 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.102.223 X-Trace: sv3-YvUzTjZ6IY467JImjR7VAm/IOepTRO5ZHtLiYo+PhlUIaOuBNeb9lQTp5xMsnwDX+sHIw1PKoFR6t5J!P1dzSuchvaq03MfOIve+dDGil7KcAV2MlfP2hxkpRfAWe7qo4tzQkpAjKZF1tT81QFPVRNTfHCyz X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5890 Date: 2005-10-23T01:35:19-05:00 List-Id: > If you want to be funded, you will need smaller projects, in an > area where you have proven expertise as demonstrated by previous > successes, for people who have an immediate and urgent need for > the thing you will be making. By those criteria Christopher Columbus would never have been funded. If that kind of funding was a requirement (since an entrepreneur couldn't self-fund in the hopes of later profit), no technical genius who wasn't also a masterful salesman would ever get off the ground. That's kind of limiting to progress.