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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 03:15:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CBD4B3E.6030501@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Open Source: in conflict with the development process in the Ada community? References: <3CB94312.5040802@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> <3CBCEB15.E104D1F5@adaworks.com> <35c5c360dfe83cb34ea9648445bd0e95.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:14:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.249.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1019038498 162.83.249.49 (Wed, 17 Apr 2002 06:14:58 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 06:14:58 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22643 Date: 2002-04-17T10:14:58+00:00 List-Id: Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > But since in point of fact Dr. Dewar and company seem to be making a > quite comfortable living, perhaps the problem instead is that the > expectation of being paid for software up front, rather than being paid > for enhancements happy customers want to that software once it is in > widespread use, is no longer the best model. But Dewar, et al. were paid to develop GNAT!