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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e2839f528cc1c40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alfred Hilscher Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: <387F0E96.76C0D0A3@icn.siemens.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572525248 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de> <85j75o$ofk$1@news08.btx.dtag.de> <85l3is$9fc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Siemens AG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hi Ted, you are right. No one of us could do this all himself. The real challenge is to find enough people to participate. If you once have found them you can do your own job (see Linus Torvalds). Ted Dennison wrote: > Personally, I'd love to go off and write all these projects. And when > work peters out on OpenToken I probably will do one of them (if they are > still feasable at that point). But sadly even if I quit my job to work > on Open Source Ada projects full time I wouldn't have the time to do all > of the neat projects listed in this thread, much less al the others I'd > like to be able to do. > > Its apparent that what's lacking is not good ideas for projects, but > good people willing to get them off the ground. Thus I would like to > personally challenge everyone who has contributed to this thread to put > their money where their mouth is. David Botton has a spot in the > AdaPower lab all warmed up and waiting for you. > > For anyone seriously thinking about starting an OpenSource project, I > highly reccommend reading ESR's essays; available online at > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/