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: 103376,345c9fcf5a67a99f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-24 06:31:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CEE40A9.4010500@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft takes on ACT References: <4519e058.0205230724.38617c60@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:31:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1022247078 68.12.51.201 (Fri, 24 May 2002 09:31:18 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:31:18 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24642 Date: 2002-05-24T13:31:18+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > In a sense, the DoD has been in the "Open Source" business from early on. I > couldn't tell you how many projects it would cover, but I know that *some* > (at least one, possibly all) projects had the DoD retaining all data rights > to the software developed for a given project. Hence, so long as it was not That's been my experience too. I think that's what *all* users would demand, given they had enough clout to do it. The DoD just happens to have the clout. :-)