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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:28:42 -0700
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>
>   Perhaps giving them software, then not helping when they get stuck,
> is more like finding a beggar, showing him the beer and chips in your
> car, driving him out to the beautiful countryside, set him down to
> munch the salty chips, then, when he asks for a beer, you announce the
> beer, and the ride back to town, are expensive.  I suppose there are
> those who would claim the moral high ground "but I fed the beggar".

Someone once described a difference between conservative and a
liberal this way.    The conservative throws a rope toward a drowning
man but makes him swim part of the way to reach it.   A liberal throws
the rope directly to him and lets go of the rope before he reaches shore.
What do you call someone who throws the rope, requires the drowning
person to swim for it, and then lets go of the rope too?

ACT, when working on behalf of its customers, throws them a rope and
requires them to do their part.    This seems an appropriate business
model.
Free GNAT is a rope that has no one holding it at the shoreline end,
and you still have to swim a little bit to use it properly.

Richard Riehle