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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-17 14:32:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C1E728E.7030702@earthlink.net> From: "Ian S. Nelson" Reply-To: nelsonis@earthlink.net.NOSPAM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada References: <9v57u1$mfb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9v74ov014bc@drn.newsguy.com> <9v7rjc$pfc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9vi8ms$c8t$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9vl1sd$t7k$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:32:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.1.228.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1008628377 66.1.228.145 (Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:32:57 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:32:57 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:32:55 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18027 Date: 2001-12-17T22:32:57+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > bring about such a situation. Volunteer time with minimal chance of > financial reward will only go so far. Its possible that with an interesting > enough project and a small group of developers willing to do some work on > speculation that a commercial thing could come out of it, you might see some > motion in the right direction. But then you need a project that captures > some imaginations and develops from there. Suggestions? Come on. What about Linux and GCC and GIMP, and the tons and tons of other free softwares? What about all that stuff the Eric Raymond has written? Ian Nelson