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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,243844de28aa7187 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,992bfa9d3803bf5b X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,243844de28aa7187 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-23 17:17:15 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc,comp.lang.java.programmer,talk.bizarre Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!dca6-feed2.news.algx.net!allegiance!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: How Open Source software developers pay the bills, from within a successful such operation (was): Open Source: in conflict with the development process in the Ada community? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3CC5F345.7639577E@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <3CB94312.5040802@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> <3CBCEB15.E104D1F5@adaworks.com> <35c5c360dfe83cb34ea9648445bd0e95.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <5ee5b646.0204190620.1902ede@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0204201744.587dfec7@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0204230444.6684ac@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:50:29 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23025 misc.misc:6835 comp.lang.java.programmer:149402 talk.bizarre:22167 Date: 2002-04-23T23:50:29+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > I should also say that I think it leads to a much more satisfying > environment > for software developers. I still spend a lot of my time improving GNAT > by > adding new functionality and improving what is already there, and I > find it > very satisfying that the code I write is open for examination (and > hopefully > appreciation :-) by others. In more concrete terms, I think that this > openness > is one of the reasons that no software engineer has ever left Ada Core > Technologies in its seven years of existance. Which is surprising, > especially > since we can't dangle stock options worth potential millions as an > incentive. Sounds nice. Too bad I have neither compiler development experience nor a desire to live in New York. -- Jeffrey Carter