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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Laser printing from ADA (Windows)
Date: 1998/10/28
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>>On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>>
>>> In article <3634aec6.547292@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>,
>>> tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
>>> I think he is referring to his own misunderstanding
I'd like to point out that the quote-count ">>" is incorrect here.  I
did not say anything about anybody's misunderstanding - that was
Dennison's comment.
> Making everything public domain (in which
>you can and probably should contribute) is one of the reasons other
>languages such as C and C++ have taken off

  Having paid for the vast majority of my C coded programs, I'm
surprised to hear that everything in C and C++ is public domain.
  Having posted a substantial amount of Ada source code in the past to
BIX and Compuserve (and the PAL, although they apparently dropped it)
I feel that I've contributed at least my share of free software.  
   Since my grocer wants cash, I cannot afford to donate 100% of my
time to writing and giving away free software.  If you want things
like the Windows printer code this thread started with, you can either
pay to buy what's available today, or you can wait until someone has
free time to write it for you - in fact CLAW exists today, and Jerry
van Dijk implied that he might make available a free version in the
future.  So you can pay in money or waiting - your choice.